not for themselves, but Christmas FL and Santa Claus IN are often sites of seal FDs, and are often used to get seal cancels. It's for the seal, though, not the cancel (although I want it tying the seal) that I collect them.
David
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"Save the USPS, buy stamps; save the hobby, use commemoratives"
I received a Christmas letter today. The cancellation was "Seasons Greetings" but as is evident in the scan, the slogan cancel obliterated the stamps, and the slogan itself is a blurry mess. Oh for the use of a clean round hammer!
Perhaps some who have connections could persuade the postal authorities to reverse the date marking and the slogan on the cancelling machines, so that the date marking would cancel the stamps. It would certainly increase the likelihood of finding dated if not CDS cancels on single stamps!
I was looking at several of those USPS holiday smears the other day and thinking the same. My bro-in-law works for USPS in one of those sorting centers and said that those ink jet cancel machines are difficult to keep clean and nobody wants to be the guy who cleans it!
And don't forget to watch your Christmas mail for the machine vending Christmas stamp! I think those will be hard to find on cover in the future.
I have been saving most of the Christmas stamps from our cards this year. And yes what a mess with the cancelations. They almost cover the whole stamp with ink. Such a disappointment.
Send a stamped self addressed envelope to this address requesting their special Christmas postmark. and see what is returned to you...Canada Post has an interesting article about the unique post office Google Christmas Island Canada post office
Christmas Island PO
8499 Grand Narrows Hwy
Christmas Island CB
NS Canada B1T1A0
