Post here your nice used stamps received on incoming parcels

librarianc · **Posted:** Sat Nov 13, 2010 23:17:16 pm

Received recently from Norvic...........

and the RM label (as highlighted in another post) for your records........

Thank you for the prompt service!

John A

norvic · **Posted:** Sun Nov 14, 2010 05:37:24 am

librarianc wrote:

Received recently from Norvic...........

So, despite the stamps being cancelled at the counter with the 2-ring datestamp, and despite the official line being that items with labels NOT being postmarked at sorting offices, you have the additional Norwich rubber packet handstamps. But at least the Inland Recorded Signed For stamp was permitted for international use.

librarianc · **Posted:** Sun Nov 14, 2010 09:13:11 am

I wondered about that 2nd cancel......... :wink:

norvic · **Posted:** Sun Nov 14, 2010 20:55:22 pm

librarianc wrote:

I wondered about that 2nd cancel......... :wink:

At least it was the same day, and they didn't delay it to apply that!

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Mon Nov 15, 2010 18:05:17 pm

GlenStephens wrote:

Skippy wrote:

here are some that I have received on Parcels

From the postmark I have a fair idea which dealer that was. I've stayed at their home there.

I'd be embarrassed to charge someone $12 and use tired and near worthless old 25 year old rubbish like that on a client parcel.

70% of what you paid for are the $5 and $2, which are $5 a 100 in used bundles. And the others are not too far behind to be honest. :twisted:

I mailed this today to a member here . and for his $10 shipping he'll get something worth $20 fine used. :idea:

Those Tasmanian ones are gorgeous!

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Mon Nov 15, 2010 18:11:12 pm

Skippy wrote:

GlenStephens wrote:

From the postmark I have a fair idea which dealer that was.

Gawd it's a small world when people can be recognised by the postmark !! :lol:

I'll have to admit I never took much notice of parcel/letter stamps I received (or sent) until I joined this board. I keep them now in case they are of use to anyone.

I get a lot of parcels from ebay and mail order (books, gifts and junk, not philatelic) and they never have stamps !!

So just seeing any stamps on parcels, regardless of value, is a bonus I'd say

Your example makes a good point though, and something I'll keep in mind if ever I send a parcel.

Skippy

I have started emailing eBay sellers and asking them to mail with stamps instead of white labels if they can. Almost all of them (7) have obliged. Some of them - not being stamp collecting critters thought it was a little strange, but did anyway.

One person told me sure, but they weren't sending me any they had to lick! :lol:

norvic · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2010 02:30:53 am

From Saran, enclosing the cover I used to send his free GB stamps, a couple of nice Aldabra Giant Tortoises - Thankyou!.
(Which reminds me I must find an Official Paid cover I have from Aldabra -or some islands in the Indian Ocean somewhere, I know I have one!)

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2010 08:55:02 am

Those tortoises are absolutely gorgeous!

skilo54 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2010 17:40:24 pm

I got my first copies of "The GB Journal" and my membership info from the GBPS today!

Here is the Gold Machin label used to send it to me, I love the date!

Another for your records Norvic!

norvic · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2010 22:42:01 pm

Received last week from Paul, nice stamps and 'Earliest Recorded Baseball Game 1838' postmark
and from my favourite Canadian website with another pictorial postmark, both with corner blocks. Very nice!

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2010 22:49:16 pm

I love those birds!

revenuecollector · **Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2010 08:09:40 am

CHzug1291 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 26, 2010 10:13:14 am

I did send a parcel to my brother in Switzerland and applied Glen's way of using nice stamps!
Airmail was A$ 120.00 including GST.
I prepared 2 covers with a sheetlet of Mary McKillop and 1 cover "multi coloured"
The parcel was sent on the 18. October 2010 from North Sydney, canceled with the appropriate postmark.
I inserted the covers inside the parcel, outside the clerk wrote POSTAGE PAID!

On arrival day in Arlesheim/Basel, my brother took the covers out of the box and had them back canceled with the arrival date 28.10.2010 and send them in a big envelope straight back to me!
The covers arrived here on the 3rd of November, and got post marked on arrival!

Nice items with proof of postal usage.

Peter

umby · **Posted:** Sat Nov 27, 2010 07:09:37 am

Very Nice
Sehr SchÃ¶ne

umby · **Posted:** Sun Nov 28, 2010 01:18:27 am

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Sun Nov 28, 2010 01:24:46 am

CHzug1291 wrote:

I did send a parcel to my brother in Switzerland and applied Glen's way of using nice stamps!

On arrival day in Arlesheim/Basel, my brother took the covers out of the box and had them back canceled with the arrival date 28.10.2010 and send them in a big envelope straight back to me!

Worth a LOT more retail than $50 Peter, so you not only got free postage, you MADE money by sending your parcel!

CHzug1291 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 28, 2010 07:51:58 am

Thank you umby, yes they are nice collctables

and to Glen,
I learned from the best! :wink:

Cheers
Peter

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Tue Nov 30, 2010 20:09:01 pm

I received my much anticipated 'Wallace and Gromit' FDC's and cards from Norvic today.... YAY!

Catweazle · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 22:27:54 pm

They look great, I always loved Wallace and Gromit!

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 22:45:23 pm

Catweazle wrote:

They look great, I always loved Wallace and Gromit!

I Leeeerrrrve them!!

skilo54 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 02:43:03 am

I got one from Australia and another from Belgium this week! Both are real nice, take note Stanley Gibbons! :twisted:

norvic · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 02:14:05 am

Incoming from from SB member Ton in Holland, but they TNT seem to be as good/bad as Royal Mail at postmarking stamps :!:

norvic · **Posted:** Thu Dec 09, 2010 07:49:49 am

Incoming from Eric in Canada, where they know how to apply postmarks, albeit inkjet - at least you can read the date.

Includes what I presume is this year's Christmas P-stamp (Permanent, not Personalised). Thanks Eric!

funbaldguy · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2010 15:45:53 pm

Some great stamps I got from Glen on shipments of stamps... The bad news is shipping from Australia is spendy, but I get some great blocks...

PeterS · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2010 15:51:16 pm

I think Glen probably has a good idea of how the postal clerks who prepared the First WMK Kangaroo specimen sets felt!

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2010 16:11:06 pm

(at) funbald guy - thats a lovely BIG lot you got there!

davo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2010 16:12:05 pm

The US Post Office also has a very light touch in postmarking. Apart from the smudge at top right, the light cancel is invisable. US$62.96 paid for around 2kg, with $58 untouched. I presume the stamps are current? They are cute bears.

funbaldguy · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2010 16:18:29 pm

((at)) Ms Lou Lou, yeah, I think I both humor and frustrate Glen from the (big/heavy) lots i buy. I swear though that guy must buy his postal clerks some nice brew now and again. These blocks are incredible....

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2010 17:39:49 pm

Given how often he's into the PO and how much he sends, not to mention all the $$ the office earns ordering in commems to sell, they probably just hand over the canceller. Maybe he has his own canceller with his name on the handle behind the counter. :mrgreen:

It's a licensed post office, they're earning a living through commissions on stamp sales, so someone like Glen is a 'dream customer'.

PeterS · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2010 06:52:07 am

My experience with Licensed Post Offices is that they are pretty much always helpful and responsive. I get excellent service at my local.

I went to an Australia Post office in the city a while ago and asked specifically for stamps to put on a parcel. Of course they just printed a nasty white label. Got very narky when I demanded they give me the stamps I had requested! I did prevail in the end though! :evil:

funbaldguy · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:35:15 am

Just got some stamps today from Skilo in this wonderful envelope. Problem is the post office isn't always gentle. Then they put a tag over the whale stamp. Should I leave it as is or soak off the whale?

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:00:03 am

Those type just peel off easily don't they?

funbaldguy · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:16:13 am

Not sure. I've never tried for fear I'd take off part of the face of the stamp. What kind of luck have you had removing things like this? Would it work to heat it up before i tried?

George

makielb · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:19:33 am

I've pulled 100s off without a problem - even when across stamps.

Of course, there could always be an exception. :twisted:

I am assuming that is a USPS label.

Good luck, I'd go for it.

makielb · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:20:33 am

And, BTW - leave it! It's a stunner of a cover - I want one just like it.

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:17:55 pm

Thank You to the moderators who tidied up the mess I left when I moved things around in photobucket (presenting deleted image messages) - and my apologies.

Ive got a permanent home for them now, so - heres the much anticipated wonderful Wallace and gromit parcel (once again) that I recieved from Norvic.

*looks up* - The most beautiful christmas cards I have ever seen!

Thanks Ian.

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:45:47 pm

PeterS wrote:

My experience with Licensed Post Offices is that they are pretty much always helpful and responsive. I get excellent service at my local.

I went to an Australia Post office in the city a while ago and asked specifically for stamps to put on a parcel. Of course they just printed a nasty white label. Got very narky when I demanded they give me the stamps I had requested! I did prevail in the end though! :evil:

My Local PO staff are wonderful, I have known them for a number of years, and since I've started collecting, they keep me at least one of everything when each issue comes out.

To my delight, when I went into my post office to post my secret santa bundles, I took most of my own stamps. I was $1.00 short on one of the domestic parcels and I went back up to the counter. The staff member went over to a big box sitting on a bench behind them and shuffled around a bit. She came back with a a butterfly (1996 I think it was) and 2 x saltwater crocodile stamps 1994. Together they totalled exactly $1. Hopefully they will be a nice suprise for my recipient - although I imagine they already have them.

They all had a bit of a giggle at me, when they realised I had LICKED the Melbourne Cup Minisheet :roll:

Overall - lovely bunch!

funbaldguy · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 14:28:21 pm

It came right off, thanks for the heads up guys!

George

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 14:48:24 pm

funbaldguy wrote:

That particular type of label, the long thing strip covering the whale, is not 'stuck for life' like a registered label or such, that you wouldn't want to come off, its just something to help the sorting machine.

I would also leave the cover intact; most uses of the whale will be on parcels, to have a nice in-period, correct-rate-paying, small-size cover that would fit on an album page is a delight.

As for dealing with post offices, I grew up in a small town and the 3 staff of the post office all knew me well. When I had posted a big box one day, the clerk said "I'm not carrying that, you have to take it to into the backroom for me"...I got a free tour of the post office 'internals' :mrgreen:

. We did have a couple private operations in drug stores, I never used them, the staff were just the store staff sent to work the postal counter instead of the store cash register, and didn't know a whole lot about what they were doing.

skilo54 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 14:50:35 pm

funbaldguy wrote:

It came right off, thanks for the heads up guys!

George

Hi George,

I am glad you were able to remove that label no probs, and that you like the cover my friend! I tried to leave enough blank space on the cover for this type of label, but I guess the obvious sometimes is too obvious.

Have a Good One,

Skilo54

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 15:25:37 pm

aethelwulf wrote:

As for dealing with post offices, I grew up in a small town and the 3 staff of the post office all knew me well. When I had posted a big box one day, the clerk said "I'm not carrying that, you have to take it to into the backroom for me"...I got a free tour of the post office 'internals' :mrgreen:

2006 when I had a meeting with the Darwin APO Business Manager, I had a similiar experience. Shame I didnt collect stamps then, so didn't have an appreciation in that sense.

Interesting journey none-the-less.

norvic · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 20:24:29 pm

MissLouLou wrote:

To my delight, when I went into my post office to post my secret santa bundles, I took most of my own stamps. I was $1.00 short on one of the domestic parcels and I went back up to the counter. The staff member went over to a big box sitting on a bench behind them and shuffled around a bit. She came back with a a butterfly (1996 I think it was) and 2 x saltwater crocodile stamps 1994. Together they totalled exactly $1. Hopefully they will be a nice suprise for my recipient - although I imagine they already have them.

Now here's a question for the "used in period' collectors. Assuming MissLouLou is right on her dates, those stamps are about 15 years old, but she bought them this week at the PO. In period use or not? :?:

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 20:52:54 pm

Ian, could you give me a quick run down of the term "use in period" bit. No clue.

As for the accuracy of the dates - might be off on the butterflies, though fairly sure, and the crocodiles - almost bet a wisdom tooth pulled out without anesthesia on it.. lol I looked them up when I got home from the P.O.

The santa bundle recipient can hopefully report to us when he recieves it.

norvic · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 21:05:59 pm

That's a question for the locals to answer, and those who collect such things, and precisely why I asked it. Generally a definitive series would be 'in period' until the next series was issued. Commemoratives are 'in period' for not very long at all - as more are issued so very quickly.

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 22:34:27 pm

So use in period refers to the stamps of an issue - and the amount of time that a post office uses that issue of stamp?

librarianc · **Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 02:53:13 am

Ian:

From my reading of the other comments around this board, I believe it would be targeted as "Philatelic in nature"....with no discussion about whether they were used in period.

Having said that, it is slowly becoming noticeable in Canadian stamps how often the older definitives have had unannounced changes in paper or perforations and finding that odd variation used on any cover is a challenge. Old stock from a PO may just be the ticket for this type of discovery as they are most likely the very last printing. It can take years for the variations to surface publicly.

John A

merouane · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 20:59:40 pm

merouane · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 21:07:32 pm

MissLouLou · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 22:14:26 pm

Simpson stamps?! Oh my... I have to get me some of those!

davo · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 09:50:45 am

Simpsons, the whole sheetlet on cover (and nicely postmarked as well) courtesy of a good US seller.


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