Beautiful France

3 ATM on cover, LISA AND LISA 2, cancel on 24th Nov. 2003 by temporary post office.

Dual UEFA 2004

Portugal UEFA 2004 ATM and special stamps, registered letter on 26th June 2003.

Luxury Taiwan Blackbear cover

Black Bear ATM from VarioSyst503A, registered letter in printed matters by air. Cancel date is 21th Oct. 2005.

Taiwan CKS new machine

On early the CKS ATM was issu

ed by Nagler machine, later on 2003, VarioSyst503 were start off operation. From september 2004, VarioSyst503A were kick-off.

This cover was posted on 14th July 2004, from VarioSyst503.

Cyprus trumpet cover

Cyprus trumpet registered cover to Beijing, posted on 25th Sep., 2003.
Blue print, and the character between value is comma, not dot like other ATMs issues.

Cyprus Flowers FDC

Cyprus 3th March, 2005 flower FDC to Beijing, registered. Machine number 003. The
avaible number are 003 -- 007.

Japan ATM card

Japan inland card with ATM, right image is receipt of ATM.

Portugal UEFA 2004

Portugal issue for UEFA 2004, this cover was posted on July 2004. Sticked Crouzet black, Epost blue.

Taiwan BlackBear covers

Left and Right are FDCs. Left is from Nagler, right from VarioSys503. Mid is used cover from VarioSys503a, date is 18th Sep. 2004. Actually the mid is more rare than FDCs, because after the issue day, few peoples to buy the ATMs, even make covers. But several months later, all machines were closed. When the machine could work again on 18th March, 2005. All the stamps were pre-print serial number on back, and there is machine number on VarioSys503, VarioSys503a.

Taiwan BlackBear FDCs

Taiwan Black Bear ATM FDCs. Above from VarioSys503a a little bit rare, below from VarioSys503. 21th July, 2004. Somebody said only one machine of VarioSys503a was operated on that day.

Taiwan Rocupex'04 FDCs

Taiwan Rocupex'04 ATM FDCs to Beijing, 6th August, 2004. Above letter is from VarioSys503a, blue print and sticked one Blace bear ATM. The bottom cover is from VarioSys503, but cut shift.

Belgium BRUXELLES HEYSEL FDCs

Belgium ATM FDCs for PHILEURO 2004. I don't know why there is no receiver cancel on the back cover. There is violet line by postman, maybe means dealed.

Crazy Finland cover

This cover posted on 4th Oct. 2004, from Finland to Beijing. There are 8 ATMs, every one's value is MK1.00, big front.

Super hard paper I ever saw. Haha!

The way to get ATMs

Usually I exchange ATMs with world wide collectors, and I try my best to offer their want, special stamps, FDCs, coins, postcards. Sometime, I send cash to them (include post office, philately service of authurized) for ordering, surely sometime I sued credit card. Another easy way is buying from vendor directly.
So eyes on all news is very important, and you can buy/exchange new ATM on time; and visit all kinds of site to get the news who is selling ATMs.
I spend much time on ATMs, and it make fun.

How can I drop into this black hole ?

I had to mention the first ATM I got regarding this topic I start off collecting ATMs. On Oct. 2002, I start my stamps collection again since freeze of 1997. On end of 2002 I travel to Taiwan for biz trip. At night I want to send out my post card from the post office, but it closed. I found one machine out side the post office, looks like it will output stamps if I insert coins, like I met at Hong Kong airport. Well after input my coins, I got two stamps, the value is 10$ and 20$, put one on postcard, another for letter some days later. That time I did not know anything about the ATM. Just then I think the stamps are very strange, looks like labels, not stamps, no beautiful, even I guess it can not be used as postage. So in the later weeks I bought stamps from account of post office for my travel postcards, not from machine.
Several weeks later, I came back to Beijing. And explored one site named Zhuanti, means topic philately. There is one forum about AUTOMATICE PHILATELY. The beautiful ATM interested me, thru the ATM I can find many many secrets. There are lots of articles about the study of ATM, include cut, print, layout, color, even work process of machine. From then I loved the ATMs.
Thru ATM I made some friends from world wide, and exchange ATMs, share information. Even have dinner together. Also I have ever not touched China ATM, but I always wish one day China can setup new machine for ATM. Whatever I realized my dream to operate ATMs last year at Hong Kong, Macau. This year was Swizterland and France. Every touch I can got more funs, more knowledges.
Welcome drop into our world...

What is the ATM ?

ATM here we mentioned is not 'auto teller machine', it is German language 'automatenmarken', means automatic stamps. Peoples buy stamps from the vendor machine, and the value of stamps was printed by the machine onsite in time, not pre-print.

Some area and peoples called it 'postage labels', 'franking labels', 'vendor machine label', 'frama', 'd'affranchissement'. Actually the word 'frama' is the company name that produced many many automatic stamps machine for all the world.
Base on the definition of ATM by UPU, the stamps should be used on any where, any time inland, and the value must be printed on site by the machine under the user's request. Usually there should not print date on the labels, but some countries had that. For example Poland, Spain. But this did not affect the use of the labels.

Today, many countries had issued the ATM, from France, Nofolk Island, China... to Bolivian, Morocco. Base on the reason of machine maintain, useness effect, some countries stop the machine, i.e. China, UAB, Pitcaine, Australia.. Some countries re-buy new machine to issue ATM, for example Austria.

Foundation of This Blog

After 4 years later of collecting ATMs, I just want to share my collectings and experience to all collectors from the world wide. Through this field, hope can share more funs to all of us.Here inside this site, you can find some images of my collecting, some artciles I studied, some un-confirmed messages I got, and some machine photoes from other friends.

Welcome to The mini world of ATM

Hello, all collectors from world wide. Welcome to my mini-world of ATMs. Inside this site, you can find some ATM used covers and ATM stamps that I collected, even some articles I studied.
Surely not all the articles are correct, that I hope you feedback your rich knowledge to correct my words. Belive this field will benefit all explorers, and attract more friend into ATM world.
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