I have no idea why there would be a £2 Edinburgh Castle stamp on this PC as the unit was based at Thorney Island in Sussex which is on the south coast on the English Channel, or La Manche, if you you are a Quebecian.
The blue cross was put on registered post, probably so the postman knew to get a signature. Nowadays it is all done by barcode, which means that I never have to sign for registered post, especially if it's from overseas.
But £2 does seem a lot to pay for registered post. Today it would cost £2.06 for UK post or £6.41 to Canada so maybe not.
You could be right there, the postmark does not venture past the perfs. It could have been taken from another item. Mind, you have better eyesight than me, I couldn't tell it was a parcel cancellation. I just thought it may have been a none too elegant CTO.
Back in the days before barcodes, when you took an ordinary packet or envelope to the post office for registered post the postmaster/mistress would put on a blue cross with a thick blue pencil. Unless you had an arrangement with a friendly postmaster/mistress they wouldn't have bothered to carefully place the vertical line to the right of the write-up without impinging on the address portion and the same with the horizontal. Customer service wasn't invented then. And if it was intended as a registered item where is the Registered Number sticker?
I think you're right Sheepshank, some silly bugger is having a laugh.
"Back in the days before barcodes, when you took an ordinary packet or envelope to the post office for registered post the postmaster/mistress would put on a blue cross with a thick blue pencil. Unless you had an arrangement with a friendly postmaster/mistress they wouldn't have bothered to carefully place the vertical line to the right of the write-up without impinging on the address portion and the same with the horizontal. Customer service wasn't invented then. And if it was intended as a registered item where is the Registered Number sticker?"
Oke, just like the Germans did in WW2.
See my posts in the Europe -> Germany section. (You like them or you do not like them, Karl Hennig enveloppes.)
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