Un repère pour les machines de tri.

Par kitts le 27/05/2020

Donc pas une variété, une simple oblitération ?

Par Lachloppe le 27/05/2020

Ah non, ce n'est pas une oblitération, c'est à rapprocher des barres "orange fluo" qu'on voit parfois sur les enveloppes, plus rarement sur les timbres.

Par 123Jacquesjacques le 27/05/2020

I have some used Machins that bear small dots or spots (either circular or diamond shaped) that appear to be sprayed on. Most of the spots are silver or grey. What are these spots?

I have always considered these spots "cancellation" or "sorting" marks. Linn's Stamp News in their April 24, 2006 issue (page 42, Collectors' Forum), notes the following:

"The spots are British mail-test markings that are applied to the faces of envelopes in tracking mail pieces during a mail test. Some of them happened to fall on the stamps affixed to the face of the envelope."

[Dec 17/10 update] Ian Billings of Norvic Philatelics notes the following:

Mechanised sorting really took off in Britain in 1959 with the application of rows of phosphor dots across the envelope. The top row, which sometimes hit the stamps, reflects the inward half of British postcodes which are much more precise than most others (except Canada which copied the UK system). The inward half is used to sort mail within (or arriving in) a sorting office for local distribution to addresses served by that office.

The outward half is used to send mail from one sorting office to another, and was translated as a row of dots near the foot of the envelope. The system has changed over the years, the coloured dots became blue dots, and now orange fluorescen

Par JDA78 le 27/05/2020

Bonsoir, vous pouvez utiliser le traducteur de google

Par JDA78 le 27/05/2020

Merci à tous (et au traducteur de google), c'est nettement plus clair pour moi.

Par Lachloppe le 27/05/2020