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23-7-1896, TUR 7
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Marius
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After a lengthy process, duly documented in Langangen's studies of the postal archives, that included an order for a U.S. made Doremus mail marking machine, an agreement was signed for a one year test lease of a Canadian Bickerdike (of German mfg). Stationed at Brevavdelingen, the installation process and user trainig took place from the 3rd until the 6th August 1903.
However, the Bickerdike was no faster than the excellent postal workers of Xania were by hand, and after a while the PO found little use for it. Standardized mail pieces, especially in the holiday season and Christian faith confirmation weekends, were typical uses.
In June 1904 the lease was discontinued, much due to the fabulous new Krag-Hansen machine that was being developed in Xania with the PO as testbed.
Oh, btw, when the machine was returned, the postmark was removed. Later it surfaced as a back-office canceller, manual that is, at PPI... A piece of info only interesting to übergeeks, but then again, that's probably what you are if you read this. I have a document with a manual-strike somewhere, and will beam it up here next time it surfaces. (Hits: 816)
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