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www.canadianstampnews.ca An essential resource for the CANADIAN advanced and beginning collector Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/canadianstampnews Follow us on Twitter @trajanpublisher STAMP NEWS Follow us on Instagram @trajan_csn Volume 45 • Number 08 August 4 - 17, 2020 $5.50 Postmarks tell pandemic story By Jesse Robitaille cancel – “Personnel soignant, This is the final story in a merci / Thanks, healthcare three-part series highlighting workers” – to all lettermail COVID-19 philately. processed at each of the eyond stamps and covers, Crown corporation’s 21 mail- which were explored in processing plants. The French partsB one and two of this se- and English text is mechani- ries, collectors focusing on a cally applied using the postal COVID-19 theme are also service’s high-speed auto- well-equipped with pan- mated processing machines. demic-related postmarks. “I’ve been dropping letters In recent months, a range of into my local mailbox almost pictorial and slogan cancels every day, and they’ve all From 2015-19, the evolution of Jean Wang’s award-winning thematic exhibit on blood has been applied to mail origi- been coming back to me with ‘brings tears to my eyes,’ said long-time philatelic judge Bill Schultz. nating from several countries, this cancel,” said Wang, who including Canada, Britain, Ire- added the cancel also includes land, Germany, Australia, an eight-digit datestamp and Croatia, Malaysia, Singapore seven-character location code Exhibitors focused on importance and Turkey. The postmarks to the right. typically support the World The first two digits note the Health Organization’s “pro- year; the next two digits note must ask, ‘Is it worth the effort?’ tective measures,” including the month; the third pair of staying at home and physi- digits notes the day; and the By Jesse Robitaille ria more perplexing than phil- “There’s one rule in the cally distancing, while others last two digits mark the hour This is the final story in a two- atelic and subject importance. manual – and only one rule offer messages of support. of processing according to the part series exploring the mea- It’s true for both exhibitors – and everything else is a hint “A lot of these messages are 24-hour clock. sure of ‘importance’ in a phila- and judges: the former frets or a suggestion. The one rule actually a way for the postal In her example, the code telic exhibit. over how to justify their ex- is you have to own the mate- service to disseminate mes- “20051222” would indicate When it comes to the some- hibit’s importance while the rial, so when you hear people sages to the community,” said the cover was processed on times muddy waters of judg- latter is burdened with deter- say, ‘You have all these rules Toronto philatelist and award- May 12, 2020, at 10 p.m. (or ing, there is perhaps no crite- mining “the challenge in cre- and regulations,’ that’s winning exhibitor Jean Wang. 2200 hours). ating the exhibit,” as it’s ex- wrong.” “They’re trying to encourage Beneath the datestamp is plained in the Manual of Phila- Despite the solitary rule, Publications Registration Mail No. 09136 Agreement No. 40069699 Agreement Mail No. 09136 Publications Registration people to follow social dis- another seven-character code: telic Judging and Exhibiting. some material is still leased to tancing to try and control the “M4L,” a Toronto-area postal “Importance, in the arena exhibitors, he added. pandemic.” code, is followed by “3808,” of exhibiting in the points sys- Rather than rules, the man- In Canada, however, the which notes the processing tem, is one of the most chal- ual outlines “typical exam- postal service’s message is machine. lenging and confusing, con- ples” of “how exhibitors have one of thanks. “I’ve been getting these flicting areas for the exhibi- developed and treated spe- Since May 1, Canada Post from different machines, and tors and the judges as well,” cific types of exhibits, and has applied a bilingual slogan Continued on page 19 said Bill Schultz, of West what judges expect to see in Chester, Pa., who co-wrote such exhibits,” as explained in the seventh edition of the the manual’s introduction. venerable manual, which was The foreword also touches published by the American on the manual’s purpose: “It Philatelic Society in 2016. is not a set of rigid rules but While exhibitors sometimes rather a set of guidelines by complain the 65-page manual which judges can uniformly is “full of rules” – a common assess an exhibit, and by misconception about exhibit- which exhibitors can create ing in general – it’s really various types of exhibits with more of an inspirational out- great flexibility.” line than a list of hard and “It doesn’t say here are the Both the Royal Mail (top) and Canada Post (bottom) have fast regulations, Schultz rules,” added Schultz, a issued slogan cancels with a pandemic theme. added. 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