On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 19:47:54 -0400, "Victor Manta"
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manvic_...@yahoo.com> sharpened a crayon and wrote:
>"Sir F.A. Rien" wrote in message
>news:v79fqd5dc9sku9c69...@4ax.com...
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>>New Zealand Post has stopped canceling stamps on mail — at least
>>temporarily.
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>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'.
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>Another gummint 'nail in the coffin' of stamp collecting.
>>>
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>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.
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>You're right about "Another gummint 'nail in the coffin' of stamp
>collecting", it's exactly this.
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>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...
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