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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Werner Salentin, post: 33796, member: 2120&quot;]In Germany the p.o.sends newly issued stamps to the trade several days before they become valid for postage.This is to give FDC-makers time to produce their products in time.Many collectors want FDC´s with an ordinary date cancellation only,what is&nbsp; used on the real date only.Commemorative official FD- cancels are cancelled to order also several</p><p>weeks after the day of issue.</p><p>Pretty often such early sent stamps are used on </p><p>letters earliar than the first day of validity and offered later as rarities to naive collectors.</p><p>If the p.o. finds such letters they are handled like</p><p>any other letters with no or invalid stamps on them.</p><p>But some slip through undetected or were cancelled</p><p>by a &quot;friend&quot; in a p.o.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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