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Old September 24th 18, 05:18 PM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
Sir F.A. Rien[_2_]
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Default Soon no new cancelled stamps?

On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 19:47:54 -0400, "Victor Manta"
sharpened a crayon and wrote:

"Sir F.A. Rien" wrote in message
.. .

New Zealand Post has stopped canceling stamps on mail — at least
temporarily.


Other postal authorities have done some of this canccel 'skipping',
notably Great Britain. The result is 'action' by postal clerks to
'cancel' those stamps using ballpoint pens, sharpies or any other
means at hand, including ripping portions of the stamps 'to deface
against fraud'.

Another gummint 'nail in the coffin' of stamp collecting.


This is not about manually damaging the stamps that weren't cancelled by the
standard automatic devices but about somehow marking the stamps as used by a
kind of invisible ink jet spitting device.

You're right about "Another gummint 'nail in the coffin' of stamp
collecting", it's exactly this.

It will open a new collecting era of "Spit or Not Spit stamps". A cheap spit
detecting device (about £199.99) will be sold by Stanley Gibbons to advanced
collectors...

If that 'detector' works as well as their watermark detectors ...
ROTFLMAO!

BTW, have you checked a 'black light' on the spit?
Perhaps another usage of Luminol [or similar]?

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