Urrgh! Seems like a generic response, I bet that the manager didn’t even read the complaint. Couldn’t they see its a Maxicard with a philatelic cancel 
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Sad hey. It is their paid job and they dont even know what they’re doing 
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Well，in my place I can use postmark and do cancellation by myself.
(For Privacy I cant show address of cards
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That’s one thing I love about China post - mostly hand cancellation with various postmarks. Pen?Never
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yes.And while you get on well with post officer you can even seal by yourself
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That’s amazing. Great selection at one post office!
You should post at POSTMARKS and CANCELLATIONS across the globe! [NOT commemorative ones]
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盖风景戳不需要销票吗🤔
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Nanni got her first post through Postcrossing today. In fact this is the first post she ever got. It was sad to see the stamps slashed like that.
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Some very nice postmarks from China! Nice stamps (fitting my hobbies and likes). But again with the pen despite the dark, obvious postmark! So frustrating!
Ironically the front made me laugh because it showed exactly how I felt seeing the pen scribbles.
I was so angry and frustrated. I spoke to the post office ladies when I dropped of some outgoing cards and they insisted it must have happened at the source. I don’t think so! It has been happening with my Canadian mail too…especially frustrating when I send out for nice postmarks (paying postage twice!) and they get scribbled on. The post office ladies did give me a number and I lodged a formal complaint. I tried to be clear with them on what was happening and when. (I am pretty sure it is the new postie filling in for my regular one. I specified that too as I do not want my good postie penalized!) I doubt anything will come of it but you never know…
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wow, I envy you 
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But maxicard is already with the cancelled stamp on the front.
Why did they think it needed an extra cancellation?
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My question too 
And when I tried to talk to Australian Post, that is they response, it seemed that they don’t understand what is a maxicard 
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Maybe you can come China and try to do the same thing
Here is an example of my “favorite” very heavy US postal mark for saving electricity. Also – for fun – the Facebook comment I put with it when I posted the photo there:
I’m starting a contest – come up with the best possible meaning for this unlabeled postal service stamp cancellation. It could mean “conserve power”, but I’m betting on “the world is coming unplugged”, or “fund USPS or lose your connections to the world”.
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The USPS have become specialists at using this type of extremely heavy wavy line mark that has the added bonus of always obscuring what was being written to me. 
In the second example, they were cancelling the Russian stamps for Russia.
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Before postcrossing (and a couple weeks on this forum) I didn’t know anything about stamp cancelling. Now I get a little sad when I see pen or marker.
This came in the mail today. The stamps are so cute too. But the cancel mark wasn’t enough for some reason.
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Yes, looks like they were stolen.
