Cancelled Art

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Two artists have been playing pretty games with the UK Royal Mail’s automated sorting offices. It seems the machines simply read the colour of stamps to check whether the correct postage has been used, so it doesn’t matter what shape they are. Kim Rugg and John Spurgeon each use proper stamps, only they are cut into tiny pieces to create the art on the envelopes. As long as it’s cancelled, it counts! Rugg creates tentacled monsters (pictured), fireworks and beach scenes, while Spurgeon has a collection of vintage postcards sent with confetti postage called ShakesMyMail.

[Donk]

Which machine reads the colour then? Last I heard our CFC read the almost invisible bars on the stamp to determine the class - one bar for 1st, 2 for 2nd.

[Lounge Lizard]

Which machine reads the colour then? Last I heard our CFC read the almost invisible bars on the stamp to determine the class - one bar for 1st, 2 for 2nd.

Yes, but it's one band for second class, while two or more bands, in whatever combination of stamps, counts as first class - so instead of buying second class stamps at 30p buy three times the number of 10p stamps and the second class letters will be sorted as first class. .

[Donk]

Yes, but it's one band for second class, while two or more bands, in whatever combination of stamps, counts as first class - so instead of buying second class stamps at 30p buy three times the number of 10p stamps and the second class letters will be sorted as first class. .

I need a CFC refresher course.

[MinisterofCucumber]

This should be on a stamp:

[Donk]

If it was, everybody would want a duty on the handstamping table!