As far as I know, a roller cancel represents legitimate postal use, as opposed to those wavy-line cancels, which, as I understand it, indicates a remainder cancel.
That said, I'm not as current on these things as I used to be. I can ask someone who would know better than I whether or not these more recent roller cancels are actually a type of remainder cancel.
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"You gotta put down the duckie if you wanna play the saxophone. (Hoots the Owl -- Sesame Street)"
From a colleague of mine in the study group I mentioned, here's an example of that roller cancel applied to a group of stamps. It helps give an idea of what the cancel actually looks like.
(Sorry about flogging this topic to death.)
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"You gotta put down the duckie if you wanna play the saxophone. (Hoots the Owl -- Sesame Street)"
It is great to learn "stuff" that is not about rare, high value stamps you can never own, but about everyday matters which intrigue and stimulate.
I am a bit of a magpie and am interested it almost everything which can exercise my mind.My wife despairs at the apparently useless( to her !) information I accumulate.
just confirming what's already been reported: roller cancel, common on most Japanese large packages. I don't recall seeing these roller cancels on covers from any other country
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"Save the USPS, buy stamps; save the hobby, use commemoratives"
They are valued lower than "normal" postal cancels, but have also served a postal purpose. The stamps were used to pay the postal fees, but weren't stuck to the pieces of mail (the just got a "postage paid" mark), but for accounting purposes to separate sheets of paper, and were cancelled with these rollers. Often whole sheets of stamps were cancelled in this way. Not very useful if you just send a single letter, but convenient for mass mailings and the like.