I paid for non-machinable.
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My first food stamp (on an official from Porto, Portugal) and this was how it was cancelled. Also the first pen desecration. It hits you in the feels.
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Really USPS? There were already Chinese postmarks so not sure why USPS felt the need to cover the WHOLE card with more⊠haha all you can do is laugh 
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And it looks like they still missed one!
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Whatâs Napoleon eating there? A seagull?
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Yes, it looks like thatđ.
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Hahaha
This is such an interesting topic. Iâve only received 10 cards so far but just had a look and 3/10 were not cancelled:
And I got one blue pen of death scribble. They even cancelled my sticker!
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Itâs a good idea to protect the postcard!
Amazingly the stamp on the other side survived, but this is what the USPS delivered to me the day before our rates go up.
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This reminds me of the time I received my first postcard from South-Africa. The stamp had a really nice and clear red cancellation, but in my country it was cancelled again for some reason or the other. The stamp wasnât âruinedâ per se, but I thought it peculiar nonetheless.
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This poor Portuguese stamp really got the treatment. A normal cancellation, a bite taken out by the sorting machine and a pen scribble. The French Antarctic stamp escaped cancellation but the machinery was hungry that day.
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In this case, Iâm pretty sure a postal worker did this and not the person who sent me the postcard, since it made part of the message illegible, plus it cancels two stamps. (So that would be a waste of money, if the person did it)
Furthermore, it ruins the personâs decorations (which you canât see because I covered the address and message and such.)
All I just have to ask the postal worker who did this is: Why?
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I received a Hurray message last week, in which the receiver told me that every single stamp had been torn off. I usually put on four stamps, so half the postcard must have been missing. Extraordinary to think that postal workers would do this.
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Years ago (before Postcrossing) Iâve seen postcards where the stamps had been peeled off because of a commemorative cancelation. The postcard itself wasnât damaged. I hope thatâs the case with the card you send, too! 
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It looks as if the card went through the machine at least two or three times and the card kept going to the wrong city (I see postmarks from two states on that card). In USPS slang, a âNixieâ clerk finally circled the destination address and processed it manually, albeit not in a nice way.
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