Some times mail art gets lost in the mail, and other times the mail company is so kind to add something to our mail art. Dynamic art, I love that!
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Ilove your idea , Heleen !!Ihave some good pieces too !Continue
Started by Mariana Serban Aug 14, 2014.
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lt would be a good experiment to try them at the outside of the envelope, Katerina, don't you think so? It would be good to know if the Post would send it to the address which is included in the code, or if they will deliver it at the wished place!
Hahaha, I have received three letters like this already.
One for a letter I received from you, Ruud, they mistook it for 'insufficient postage' but the - sufficient postage - stamps seemed to be 'hidden' in the colourful painted envelope.
One for a sent letter to Switzerland, the PostNL controller didn't know the stamp of Vermeer's painting 'the girl with the pearl' was meant, and sufficient, for international mail. A stamp issued by PostNL themselves! :-)
By the way, I couldn't find an emailaddress, so I typed a letter and sent it by snail mail (which, oh irony, costed me 3 stamps :-) ). One of the three times they sent me some postcards to say sorry, the other two times it was just the letter.
For the non-Dutch readers who didn't consult google.translate.com: it is mail from the Dutch mail company as a reply to a complain about a 'port incident', an accusation by the mail company that there wasn't sufficient postage paid for the sent or received mail. A result of their postage checking (see previous picture of the stamp print 'grankering gecontroleerd' = 'postage checked').
Got a card postage due from PostNL and complained. This is what I got as a reply (in Dutch:)
Geachte heer Janssen,
Uit uw e-mail begrijp ik dat u een portokaart heeft ontvangen voor een poststuk dat voldoende was gefrankeerd. Ik kan mij voorstellen dat dit vragen bij u oproept, omdat deze verzendkosten ten onrechte in rekening zijn gebracht. Tot mijn spijt kon ik u hier telefonisch niet over bereiken, daarom reageer ik nu graag per e-mail.
Aan de hand van de door u opgegeven betaalcode heb ik de gegevens in ons bestand gecontroleerd. Hieruit blijkt dat uw zending voldoende was gefrankeerd en de portokosten dus onterecht in rekening zijn gebracht. Hiervoor bied ik u dan ook mijn excuses aan.
Om ervoor te zorgen dat het proces stopt en ter voorkoming van een herinnering, adviseer ik u het volgende te doen: verwijder de sticker met de adresgegevens van de portokaart. Vervolgens schrijft u op de kaart: \'Afgeboekt in overleg met KS\' plus de datum van vandaag. De kaart kunt u daarna naar ons terugsturen door die ongefrankeerd in de oranje brievenbus te posten.
Bedankt voor de moeite die u hebt genomen om contact met ons op te nemen, ik ga er vanuit u met dit antwoord van voldoende informatie te hebben voorzien. Als u naar aanleiding van mijn reactie nog vragen heeft, dan kunt u gebruik maken van antwoordformulier.
Met vriendelijke groet,
A Terpstra
PostNL Klantenservice
www.postnl.nl
That's great, Eva! That means that Real People have had this mail in Real Hands and have seen it with Real Eyes, instead of the postal machines only :-)
So this way of sending mail provides Real People of a paid (I hope for them) job!
I've seen one on your blog, indeed. And am curious to know what other kinds of mail have been treated manually, too! If it were only because of different stamp combinations, or also because the stamps were 'hidden' among colours, like on Ruud's envelopes?
Heleen, I have received some from you with the addition 'frankering gecontroleerd'.
The post added this sticker to my mail for Ti Ar, and had this mail art travel twice, so far!
I'll send it again to Ti Ar, to the new address (to the postbox, because the present mailman seems to not know where Ti Ar's house is) so this mail art will finally jave been travelling three times for the postage of two :-)
Beautiful Japanese postal addition on a "tube" that arrived from Ryosuke
Inside was a wonderful surprise!
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