Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
04:03:01pm
About the dollar, one of my favourites!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGxZD-H ...
3 Members
like this post.
Login to Like.
I remember reading somewhere, that some of them were used postally in receipt books to pay for something in bulk, like bundles of newspaper. Sorry I cannot remember exactly - I think it was the US and not Canada where for business return mail, they would sometimes cancel a high value on the top envelop to pay for the entire stack.
Josh
1 Member
likes this post.
Login to Like.
Issued as a "novelty"?
Login to Like
this post
I always wonder about the purpose of high face value stamps here in the States.
My wife wanted to send some items willed to her sister from her mom and she neatly fix a box
with all of the items in it and was going to ship it through UPS, so I figure if they are small enough items then I can put
them in those priority fit all you can in boxes for a flat rate fee, and then is when the fires started.
After almost 50 years of living in this community a letter will get to me even if the last name and a zip code is
all that there's to it, but like me, all of those old reliable employees have retired and replace by a breed of new workers
that it seems to me that they marked the box for ignorance and incompetence with a big YES!
First of all I'm told that I can't use stamps for mailing those boxes, so I ask, do you mean to tell me that I can't use
postage stamps for postage? the clerk was out of words and reply, by law we are required to put labels on these boxes.
All of this before I even mail anything, the second round was even more puzzling.
You have too much postage she told me, I know, I reply, you don't get money back she said, I'm not asking for any I reply,
then I find out that we are not supposed to used stamps for postage on envelopes or parcels weighting over 10 oz. So I figure
to ask why does the USPS print those high value stamps for?, I don't know, she says, but we learned that in training, and I thought to myself, what kind of training do these people go through. I wanted to hand cancel the stamps by myself, just like I have done for years, well, she felt so insulted that there's
no way she was going to let me even touch the CDS canceller, by the way she bangs those stamps, and I'm guessing, those cancels will not be pretty.
I instructed my S-I-L to carefully cut out the stamps and mail them back to me.
I'll have two extras so at least two members will get a chance to add one of these stamps the their collections.
BTW, one of stamps is the 2023 Florida Everglades ($9.65) and two Great Smoky Mountains ($28.75)
3 Members
like this post.
Login to Like.
I believe they do have to put labels on packages, to prove they have been handled by a postal employee and someone did not leave a bomb in a box or something, but they can put a $0.00 label on it if you use stamps. I live in a rural area in WNYand they local PO has no problem with me using flat rates boxes with stamps.
Josh
5 Members
like this post.
Login to Like.
This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
23 May 2023
04:03:01pm
Lately, whenever a reasonable chance presents itself, I have been replacing my used Canada 1897 Jubilee series with mint examples. I am now up to only needing the $4 and $5 stamps and a question hit me. Were the higher values postally useful in some way or were they just issued as a novelty? A $5 stamp in 1897 would seem to be useless. If you check Unitrade it mentions that covers for $1 to $5 were priced as if they were offered for philatelic purposes only. What other purposes other that philatelic could these higher values have. I checked and a $5 bill in 1897 is worth almost $200 of today's money. So, just out of curiosity, did these higher values actually have a postal use?
About the dollar, one of my favourites!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGxZD-H ...
3 Members
like this post.
Login to Like.
re: Question about the higher values of Canada's Jubilee series
I remember reading somewhere, that some of them were used postally in receipt books to pay for something in bulk, like bundles of newspaper. Sorry I cannot remember exactly - I think it was the US and not Canada where for business return mail, they would sometimes cancel a high value on the top envelop to pay for the entire stack.
Josh
1 Member
likes this post.
Login to Like.
09:03:09am
re: Question about the higher values of Canada's Jubilee series
Issued as a "novelty"?
Login to Like
this post
re: Question about the higher values of Canada's Jubilee series
I always wonder about the purpose of high face value stamps here in the States.
My wife wanted to send some items willed to her sister from her mom and she neatly fix a box
with all of the items in it and was going to ship it through UPS, so I figure if they are small enough items then I can put
them in those priority fit all you can in boxes for a flat rate fee, and then is when the fires started.
After almost 50 years of living in this community a letter will get to me even if the last name and a zip code is
all that there's to it, but like me, all of those old reliable employees have retired and replace by a breed of new workers
that it seems to me that they marked the box for ignorance and incompetence with a big YES!
First of all I'm told that I can't use stamps for mailing those boxes, so I ask, do you mean to tell me that I can't use
postage stamps for postage? the clerk was out of words and reply, by law we are required to put labels on these boxes.
All of this before I even mail anything, the second round was even more puzzling.
You have too much postage she told me, I know, I reply, you don't get money back she said, I'm not asking for any I reply,
then I find out that we are not supposed to used stamps for postage on envelopes or parcels weighting over 10 oz. So I figure
to ask why does the USPS print those high value stamps for?, I don't know, she says, but we learned that in training, and I thought to myself, what kind of training do these people go through. I wanted to hand cancel the stamps by myself, just like I have done for years, well, she felt so insulted that there's
no way she was going to let me even touch the CDS canceller, by the way she bangs those stamps, and I'm guessing, those cancels will not be pretty.
I instructed my S-I-L to carefully cut out the stamps and mail them back to me.
I'll have two extras so at least two members will get a chance to add one of these stamps the their collections.
BTW, one of stamps is the 2023 Florida Everglades ($9.65) and two Great Smoky Mountains ($28.75)
3 Members
like this post.
Login to Like.
re: Question about the higher values of Canada's Jubilee series
I believe they do have to put labels on packages, to prove they have been handled by a postal employee and someone did not leave a bomb in a box or something, but they can put a $0.00 label on it if you use stamps. I live in a rural area in WNYand they local PO has no problem with me using flat rates boxes with stamps.
Josh
5 Members
like this post.
Login to Like.