Jokes with stamps (part 3)
The issuance of the 60 Years of Women's Suffrage stamp on August 28, 1979, caused quite a stir among stamp collectors. This was already written about on the blog on April 10, 2007. It concerned the legal question of whether the top margin of the stamps was valid for postage. See this article from 2007.
However, many collectors did not wait for this legal tug-of-war to conclude and used a strip from the sheet margin as postage on the day of issue or later. After all, wasn't it stated by law that the word 'Netherlands' had to appear on a stamp along with the value indication? So, just a joke. I came across another such envelope where this strip was accepted by the Post and even stamped by hand by the official at the Alphen aan den Rijn post office. The item was not charged postage due.
What is even funnier is that BUSSEM was listed as the place name, whereas it should of course be BUSSUM. Even the Post Office makes mistakes sometimes, as the same error occurred when creating a new stamp.
Upon discovery of the error, a new stamp with the correct name was ordered immediately. Or was the wrong stamp also a joke?

Nice story
[…] as we close our album, here is a bonus: this little gem that we pulled from the archives of Auntie Post while sifting online. It’s a genuine official stamp that was actually actually used […]