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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Only 1 in the world, UNICATE/UNIKAT dorincard: a non-compliant maximum card that USPS has inadvertently created for me, against my will, by over-postmarking a postcard. White-tailed Deer custom maxicard, with no cachet and 2 sets of postmarks. Or, with a pictorial postmark that can be THE CACHET (illustration)

Is this a philatelic EFO ("errors, freaks and oddities")?
No freak, but it sure is an error and an oddity...:)

This was a rectangular piece of Avery transparent mailing address label (still on its waxy backing paper) that I cut to obtain a custom postcard.
Then I affixed the stamp and I mailed it to a post office in Florida, to get that deer pictorial postmark.
I provided a SASE envelope, but the postal associate decided to just drop it in the mailstream, "naked."
What the mailstream did was to apply an inkjet, spray-on cancellation by the Automated Postal System, which you can see: "SOUTH FLORIDA...HAPPY HOLIDAYS".

Over-postmarking by the post office is redundant and even not recommended, last time I checked the Domestic Mail Manual and the Postal Operations Manual.

Anyway, now I could trim it and affix the remaining label with the double-postmarked stamp onto a picture postcard, to create a maximum card.

 Or, I could keep the item as is - unique in the world (only 1 specimen, I guess).
In this case, I could even regard this deer pictorial postmark 
(more than 2x4 inches, which is huge size for a postmark) 
as a drawing / illustration / cachet / image of the postcard.

Have you ever seen a maximum card where the illustration / image is actually a (second) pictorial postmark?
:)

Besides the 3 heart-shaped head contours for Mom, Dad and Kid Deer, notice a heart shape between Mom and Dad...ain't that cute and cool?
Say Awww...:)
Bonus: heart in my own address label! :)
I could say: "I knowww...", like Craig Ferguson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_ferguson

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4 comments:

  1. ClytieMay 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM

    A wonderful and unique EFO-without-the-E! I love the heart on your address label too!!!

    Besides the "awwwww" hearts you pointed out, I see a tiny little heart in the baby deer spots (after I enlarged the card!)

    I think you should keep it as-is!

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  2. SquirrelQueenMay 19, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    I like this one as-is too, lovely collection of hearts.

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  3. LauraMay 19, 2011 at 6:19 PM

    a lovely heart discovery...thank you for sharing:-)

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  4. LyneenMay 22, 2011 at 1:32 AM

    Interest story behind the postmarks... hearts are everywhere... thanks for sharing.

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