Cambridge Puzzle

Stardate: 140712

I have a little problem over the Cambridge Crown Office. It was originally at 9-11 St Andrew Street CB2 3AA and had the office ident code of 007113. About February March 2011 the office address changed to 57-58 St Andrew Street CB2 3BZ and the office ident became 008113.

In the recent updated listing form the ukpostagelabels website, the latter address is correct and two kiosks are present. However, today I received an item from a PMSC member with a Post and Go (PAG) from 007113 and 9-11 St Andrew Street CB2 3AA.

Of note is the kiosk number and session number 3 and 00022 respectively. The receipt is below and shows the former address. 

This would also suggest that kiosk 3 became operational on the 12th July 2012. 


Can anyone suggest what is going at Cambridge?

Stardate: 150712

This Cambridge office IS at 57-58 St Andrew Street. The address on the receipt is in error with respect to the location of the kiosk. It could be that because the address is wrong the kiosk printed the id associated with the old address.

Wincor Office Ident Error!

Stardate: 120712

On one of my rare days off as a carer (10 July), I managed to run around London to visit some relocate post offices with Wincor ATMs. I also visited a few of my regular offices to update the data on session numbers and what faststamps were available. I managed to visit 10 offices and 18 kiosks in about six hours. So it was a case  of in to the office, buy a first class faststamp and receipt from a kiosk before moving on to the next without noticing much on either at the time of purchase.

When I got back home, I sorted out my "stash" of faststamps and receipts only to find a rather usual office and kiosk ident - 000000 as the office ident and 0 as the kiosk - on a receipt from William IV Street/Trafalgar Square. Kiosks 2, 3 and 4 were giving the correct office ident of 015010.

Example of the 000000 office ident with the 0 kiosk ident.

Receipt from kiosk 1 pretending to be kiosk 0.

Kiosk 2 was vending pigs and kiosks 3 and 4 were vending sheep faststamps. See my Wincoralbum1 and
 Wincoralbum2 websites to see the evidence.

Change to Office id at Cambridge 

Stardate:110412

As a consequence of my piece in the February issue of Stamp Magazine, I have started to receive reports from a number of new contacts with an interest in this area. Some information on the usage of the two kiosks (id007113/008113) in Cambridge has since been forwarded to me. The office  at 9-11 St Andrew Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AA has had its if changed to 008113 from 007113.A graphical method to estimate when the kiosks were re-numbered and reset has been used using observations that kiosk 007113-01 became 008113-02 around the 1^st March 2011 and that 007113-02 became 008113-01 around the 3^rd February 2011. Note that kiosk 1 became kiosk 2 and vice versa.

I was lucky to obtain examples from both kiosks at this office of the PAG (Post And Go) labels from this office in 2009 courtesy of a Postal Mechanisation Study Circle member. Also illustrated is the receipt from kiosk 2.

I recently sent some envelopes with payment to this office in March and received back examples from kiosk 2 with the new office id 008113.

My thanks to JG for the report and the graph illustrated,