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Re: always cross out unfranked stamps

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meercat wrote: Apparently defacing the queen is illegal and an act of treason?
I bet HE was a barrel of laughs!!! :silenced
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meercat wrote:The guy who trained me up told me to cancel out unfranked stamps but only by crossing over the 4 edges with ink and not across the image of the queen. Apparently defacing the queen is illegal and an act of treason?
No wonder, as somewhat of an anti-royalist, that I get that tremendous sense of schadenfreude on every occasion that I partake in this. Small perks of the job...right across her throat ha ha :nana .
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meercat wrote: Apparently defacing the queen is illegal and an act of treason?
Regicide or GBH at a minimum I would have thought :left: :left: :left: :left: :left: . Saying that treason was the last capital offence to be taken off the statute books - in the 90s IIRC.
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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
meercat wrote: Apparently defacing the queen is illegal and an act of treason?
Regicide or GBH at a minimum I would have thought :left: :left: :left: :left: :left: . Saying that treason was the last capital offence to be taken off the statute books - in the 90s IIRC.
Urban myth.
Defacing the queens image related to using it to promote anti-monarchist views or sentiments...hence the treason charge.
There was also defacing currency but that was more about counterfeiting than her Maj....
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ffs,doesn't the machine do it anyway,and what about the hand stampers,rem them. :crazy:
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POSTMAN wrote:ffs,doesn't the machine do it anyway,and what about the hand stampers,rem them. :crazy:
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Grinder64 wrote: No wonder, as somewhat of an anti-royalist, that I get that tremendous sense of schadenfreude on every occasion that I partake in this. Small perks of the job...right across her throat ha ha :nana .
This is the correct procedure for crossing out unfranked stamps.
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I'm only interested in the address. I don't glance at the stamp area, and have no idea whether any particular bit of mail is stamped, franked, first class, second class, mailsort, DSA, it just doesn't register with me.
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POSTMAN wrote:ffs,doesn't the machine do it anyway,and what about the hand stampers,rem them. :crazy:
Gawd bless 'er.
The CFCs at our Mail Centre are worse than useless. You'd be hard pressed to see any mark on the stamp/envelope! :arrrghhh
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pyphon wrote:i do when walking up the path, never slowed me down
and are likely to trip on an uneven path, be off sick for too long and get sacked. :shock:
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Lounge Lizard wrote:
pyphon wrote:i do when walking up the path, never slowed me down
and are likely to trip on an uneven path, be off sick for too long and get sacked. :shock:
can you have uneven golden paths - actually I suppose you can , bloody tea leafs must knick them.
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Re: always cross out unfranked stamps

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I'd be VERY interested in the written regulation regarding this as I've just been charged the postage + admin fee as the post office staff "couldn't tell if the stamps had been previously used or not" as they had not been franked but had cutting of a different envelope under them.

for all they know the sender may have stuck them on one envelope then decided to use a bigger one instead... surly the public should not be penalised if royal mail can't do their job??
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NewPostieUK wrote:I'm only interested in the address. I don't glance at the stamp area, and have no idea whether any particular bit of mail is stamped, franked, first class, second class, mailsort, DSA, it just doesn't register with me.
same here. stamp, no stamp, franked......who cares...?
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chickywiggle wrote:I'd be VERY interested in the written regulation regarding this as I've just been charged the postage + admin fee as the post office staff "couldn't tell if the stamps had been previously used or not" as they had not been franked but had cutting of a different envelope under them.

for all they know the sender may have stuck them on one envelope then decided to use a bigger one instead... surly the public should not be penalised if royal mail can't do their job??
this is acceptable they could have been stuck on a envelope by mistake they havent been franked :cuppa
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Robtor
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Re: always cross out unfranked stamps

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I've been a postie for about 4 months now and this is the first time i've even heard of this.

So we're supposed to cross them out so they cannot be used again or something? :roll:
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