My experience aligns with the above posters in that Canada and UK are particularly bad at cancelling stamps. I also seem to get a lot of Finnish mail where there is a machine cancel but not on the stamps! And Australia is probably about 50/50 cancelled/not when I receive domestic mail.
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Regularly in the UK unfortunately, but at least it’s preferable to the awful sharpie & biro cancellations! I’ve just ordered a rubber stamp to use to try & disguise those x
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It is unfortunately more common for me to receive mail without postmarks on them than canceled ones.
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That does look like you actually like cancelled stamps. Is that right?
( i like it as well btw… it adds to the charm of travelling i think)
Well, as a stamp collector, I do prefer my used stamps cancelled. Also, if you keep them on the mail you receive, as I do, a postmark is what proves that the card or envelope actually made the journey.
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Oh… So far i’ve always heard from stamp collectors that they prefer it uncancelled. But that might be on loose stamps more than received mail than.
Maybe they meant mint/unused stamps. From my experience, most stamp collectors of used stamps also prefer them cancelled.
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