use-by date for unused postage stamps?

soolin

If the CN22 has to go on the front then I am going to have to buy new card backed envelopes as the ones i use for stamps are nowehere near big enough for stamps, an address a return label and a CN22 all on one side...:eek:

worbikeman

Pembroke wrote: »

Could be the sideways stamp, you haven't carried the weight and value through to the bottom boxes, you haven't stated how many stamps, the CN22 should be on the front with the 'to' address not on the back with the 'from' address.

Putting stamps on sideways doesnt invalidate them.

mobile48

LOL The RM frank is on the back. They thought the sender address was the delivery address.

worbikeman

mobile48 wrote: »

LOL The RM frank is on the back. They thought the sender address was the delivery address.

I do hope yr not right!

mobile48

The machine readable sorting dots are on the back also so looks to be sorted for delivery to sender address by mistake.

See here for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM4SCC

Welshdebtor

I think mobile48 has hit the nail on the head.

forgotmyname

76p Airmail to Taiwan? That sounds cheap?

Shouldnt there be a number after Taiwan? Taiwan 110? Etc i thought that was like our postcode?

Pembroke

soolin wrote: »

I'm not sure i agree with your points.

I have never stated on a customs form how many 'items ' are included. I would also just put 'stamps' or when I was selling my sons Pokemon cards 'cards'. I never even put a weight on the CN22 and I put my CN22 on the back, that is where every post office i have ever used has put it and that is where I subsequently put mine now.

If the OP is wrong on any of those points then all my non UK parcels are also wrong, but luckily they all seem to get there. It also means that my local pOs are also wrong as I have merely copied their example when I took over stamping my own items

Well on the back of my CN22 roll the instructions say, 'Full name and address of sender on the front' of the item.

Detailed description and quantity of items.

Weight and value of each item, and total weight and value and currency used.

So I guess your PO doesn't read the instructions, although I admit that the instructions begin with 'to speed up clearance' so apart from the name and address on the front which is a 'must' the rest are just for speed of passage, although I believe that Canada insist on all labels on the front.

As for the stamp well I thought the early stamps used a phosphor strip on them to indicate value to the machinery of the time, if the modern machinery is still required to read these strips then the sideways stamp would cause a problem. Perhaps custardy can answer that although it appears from later replies that maybe academic now.

soolin

I wonder then if the CN22 should be on the back but in most case my packages simply don't have room. I barely have room for a label on a 4x4x4 box.

Well done mobile though for solving the mystery!

martindow

I tend to put the CN22 on the front as Canada and maybe some other countries insist on this.