Custom Postal Creations

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Ever wonder what the United States Post Office would do if the stamp was in the wrong place? What happens when you put canceled stamps on the back of an envelope for decoration? The answers to these questions were not why my quest for Custom Postal Creations began. It began because a plethora of stamps had come into my possession and they were too beautiful to throw away. What does one do with a plethora of valueless stamps? Play with the United States Post office and find out just what happens when a creator seeks to expand their interpretation of the rules.

This is the back of an 11”x14” envelope that I decorated.

This is the front of an 11”x14” envelope that I decorated. You will notice that the Post Office refused to cancel any of the stamps. They took two weeks to decide to think about possibly delivering it even though the stamps are in the correct location. Where is stamp purgatory and can I buy a ticket there? Maybe I’ll find the two experiments that discovered oblivion. Two is a small price to pay for the rest of the goodies they deliver.

This is an 11”x14” flag cover that I made for myself.

This is the front of an antique envelope I decorated with damaged stamps. They only did a machine cancel and refused to hand cancel the rest.

This is the back of the same envelope.

These are the kind of hand cancellations I try to get. Unfortunately I never know when or why they appear and not a machine cancel.

Is one nice hand cancel too much to ask? It appears that the postman put pen marks on the stamps giving Robert Frost some funky antennas. This is very odd.

I mailed this in an envelope to a friend in California. There are nice hand cancels and a machine cancel.

Bulk mail cover.

In my opinion this is the best cancellation I have ever been given. It is mostly clear, very large and is not over inked. It is too bad that these were damaged stamps.

This is my lucky 13 cover I made.

This is my lucky 13 postage due cover. It is easy to tell that the ten cent postage due was added as well as the air mail stamp but the three cent postage due blends in nicely.

I just added stamps to this nice textured envelope.

Front of Kennedy cover.

Back of Kennedy cover.

One of the most interesting cancellations I have gotten yet.

This is one of my favorite cancels. The Post Office not only canceled the back side of the envelope but they cancelled it upside down on Zippy with a machine cancel over my own rubber stamp. How lucky.