Hi any one from Canada here? I recently got this postcard amongst a whole box full, and well as the stamp has not been cancelled, no sign of cancelation I want to know is it still valid, I think the value is only 10 cents, but I could be wrong, only I don’t think it’ll be 10$ (lol). If any one can help that would be great, thank you.
Pretty sure that’s a 10 cent stamp, not a $10 stamp, but I’ll have to do a bit of hunting later today to confirm - we don’t issue many $10 stamps - it looks like it’s a Group of Seven painting.
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Hi, thank you. 
Yes it is a Group of Seven stamp from 1970.
Yes, it’s a 10 cent stamp - here’s a link with the description in small print at the bottom
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Cushty, thank you for your help.
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Hi, is this right? https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/personal/sending/letters-mail/postage-rates.page
Postage to U.K is $2.71? Thanks…
It most frightfully certainly is!
Postcarding and letter-writing are not cheap hobbies.
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Hi thank you for that, I might have to re-think my plan to send it to Canada and have it sent back to me then as not sure what to offer the person (If I could find someone) to do so. PLEASE don’t feel you have to offer. Thank you for your help.
I have found a lot of Canadian postcards I received are never cancelled, I wonder why that happens.
Not being cancelled isn’t a problem but the 
pen cancels are! Usually, they use ballpoints but this week I received a postcard where some eejit at Canada Post used a grease pencil! 
Why?!?!?
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I totally agree, pen cancellations are the worst. I just wonder, why they don’t use machine or manual stamp cancellations?
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I’d be happy to send it back to you!
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My guess … hand cancellations are likely an effort to prevent re-use. Which, I have learned today [this is an edit], is illegal. It also feels like I’d be stealing from myself and other Canadians as Canada Post is a Crown corporation, funded by taxpayers.
For anyone who might be interested, here’s an article that ponders the ethics (not legality) of re-using stamps that have not been cancelled: Is it stealing to reuse a stamp?
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Hi, it’s not one I received, but one I bought in a charity shop, it was in a box of postcards I got…
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Would you? Well CUSHTY!
I’ll send you a Pm or U2U if it’s still called that, lol…
Pretty sure it is illegal & considered mail fraud, that’s why the cancellations are done. It costs postal systems billions of dollars in lost revenue. There’s another thread on this, including a video about hand cancelling I’ll link to here when I find it.
Okay, I spoke to an agent on the Canada Post helpline & they confirmed that it is illegal to reuse a stamp that has gone through the system, even if the cancellation marks are not visible to our eyes. Apparently there may be a mark that is only visible to the machine.
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Here’s a suggestion for you. You could exchange a number of your [stamped/uncanceled] Canadian cards in envelope with a member from Canada. It might work like this:
► You self-address your cards and send them to a Canada member
► Upon receipt, the other member writes a message on each card and returns to you, again in envelope
You could the same for the other member. Send them an equal number of UK cards, attach an inexpensive stamp and write a message on each. Then pop in an envelope and mail to them.
Everybody is happy with stamped & written cards. Just that they aren’t canceled, but that is our little secret LOL
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Hi well as far as I can see it’s not been used, but then perhaps when it arrives in Canada the recipient could check? I know here if the stamp was like this it would be accepted by the Post Office and Royal Mail.
Don’t know if you saw my update above, but apparently there may be an invisible cancellation mark that only sorting machines can see. And if you were to use the stamp again, it might get sorted out of the system.
I suppose it might not too, but why take the chance?
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The smeary machine cancellations from United States Postal Service are imho worse than hand cancellations.
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