Check the 3 covers, all of them have the stupid 'postage paper' stuck. Since USSR break out, the independant countries have not enough 'new country' stamps to use, they had to make the temporary postage papers - simply marks with number on the coarse papers. The quality is even lower than the stamps made 100 years ago. I am not the expert of above 'postage paper', even don't know the real reason of its happening, but if there is ATM machine ....If the POST AUTHORITY are not enough ready for postage change, we had paid more time cost for the change. For example the inflation, or regular postage update. As we know, last 15th, China POST changed the basic inland postage from 0.80$ to 1.20 . And we did not ever issue 0.40$ value stamps almost, and for definitive stamps, there are only 0.05, 0.10, 0.30, 0.60, 0.80,,,, so for the basic letter, the postman/customer had to stick 0.30+0.10, or 0.30+0.05+0.05 value stamps on the letter. That is waste to time, and resource really. Till today, I still not find the new issue of value 0.40 and 1.20 stamps for the updates in some main post offices.If there are ATMs, just we do is update the programme, change several parameters. If the machine have networking, that we can upload new programme from center server to total country's client(ATM machines). Easy and Fast!!!
As we know current ATM machines are Omron in Japan. It can output ATMs value of 50, 80, 90, 120, 270 yen. (notes: the intial period can output 130 yen) Below image is Omron from Matudo-minami, and can produce receipt. After running several years, the program was updated to reject 500 coin and 1000 yen banknotes because of false coins and forged notes happened.
Above picture is Inland Express LetterIn 1998, there setup one machine from Fujisawa, later stopped due to don't work. And no body repaire it. The character of Fujisawa is very close to Omron, but there still a little bit difference. Because card is sticked Fujisawa ATM.
Below image is look-up between Fujisawa (top) and Omron (bottom). We can see the Fujisawa is more stronger than Omron.
Because Fujisawa also can output other vlaues, 80, 90, 120, 270. I don't know how much the difference between other characters because I have no samples of other value.
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For the new year stamps exhibition, Chungli post office will reload the Green ribbon on ATM machine, number 056, VarioSyst503A, black bear label.The machine will be setup on SOGO shopping mall, user can operate the machine themselvs, and the valid day is from 30th Dec. to 4th Jan.For 057, it is first time to use Green ribbon, but for black bear label on VarioSyst503A, it is the 3rd time to print Green. What is the next?
On 5th Dec. 2006, Israel Post issued new ATM for the Christmas, named Season's Greetings. They used machine Nr. 001, 010, 015 to release that. Regretly it is not clear and/or recognize while printing violet on red. Below image is 600% scaning, we still not can find the right machine number.From the body, for 001 number, the second zero is wider than first one.
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From last year to early of this year, 'Opole 7' post office used 37mm height label for ATM. Most of other post offices used 36mm height label.
Recently found the post office 'Opole 7' changed to 36.2mm height label.
Not sure which day it was changed?
Not sure if the 37mm height label would be happen again in the future?
Not sure if other post office(s) have ever used that label?
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Maybe we would say 88 to that spec's label.
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88: Chinese pronounciation is same to English ByeBye
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I found one interesting ATM in my album yesterday. There printed 3 strange characters on the left of label. They are '>', '_' and omega character.
The position is much higher than machine number should be, don't know how could be this. This sample have no machine number.
Netherland Post(TNT) purchased several ATM machines from Wincor-Nixdorf, named ProPostal 2000. Its first introduced date is on 6th Nov. at small town named Heemstede(two machines), second released on 10th Nov. at Nijmegen(two machines). The machines located at Heemstede can accept credit card/bankcard and coins, the machine number on label is PK000001 and PK000002. The machines located at Nijmegen can accept credit card/bankcard only, and number is TNT000001, TNT000002.PK machines' default value is 0.39, 0.65, 0.69, 0.80, and 0.85. And it can output small other values through get changes of letter. But the TNT machines can output 0.39, 0.69, 0.85 euros value.
The ATM machine can output receipt also, there are five types according to the letter destination. They areBrief binnenland -- Inland Brief Prio Europ -- Europe PriorityBrief Stand Europa -- Europe StandardBrief Prio ROW -- Rest of World PriorityBrief Stand ROW -- Rest of World Standard
The another machine can scale letter and parcels, output postage label(SFS) according to its weight. The max value is 20,00 euros, and use the same image to ATM, but bigger size.
For priority letter, the machine will print related information on the label(left side). It is stupid to print so much black background on the label, used so much ink. If it use black as foreground, that will save many ink. In my image, the all European had focus on Energy Saving, on north of Europe especially.
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