I arrived early
in the morning of 11 May 2017 at the PostNL stand in the Messe building only to
find a machine that didn't work and a long row of waiting collectors. It turned
out that there was an unknown bug in the system. The supplier of the machine
was working online from London to repair it. It took almost two hours for
technician Bob to repair it. After that I had to wait for some time before it
was my turn to get my stamps. I prepared two envelopes, one for each of the
stamps.
PostNL provided
a special postmark with the coat of arms of the city of Essen and a datestamp
from 's-Gravenhage (The Hague). Unlike all other postal administrations you can
postmark your stamps and covers yourself. The postmarks are tied with a string
to a table next to the PostNL stand. This allows the staff to help the
customers without spending time on cancelling stamps. It was possible to leave
your envelopes with the PostNL staff. They would take care of sending them
through the ordinary mail without then envelopes being cancelled by the sorting
machines. Unfortunately one did get a second postmark. Since then I have posted
my envelopes myself using the protection I
The ATM stamps
have the normal design and the values of 1 (for national mail up to 20 grams)
and INTERNATIONAAL 1 (for international mail up to 20 gr). Printed above the
machine and order number is the text Essen 2017. With each stamp I got a
receipt from the ATM machine.
Date sent: 11
May 2017
Date postmark: 11
and 24 May 2017
Date received:
26 May 2017
Number of days: 15
Envelope in collection: 112
Date sent: 11
May 2017
Date postmark: 11
May 2017
Date received:
26 May 2017
Number of days: 15
Envelope in collection: 113
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