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I still require data on session numbers, dates and what was available at Wincor-Nixdorf equipped offices within the UK. I know that the information is available given the number of views on the Stamp Magazine Forum thread and the large number of items for sale on e-bay. As may be seen in the Informer, a picture can be painted of the usage of the kiosks and when events have occurred such as resetting the session counter. 

I would appreciate the data in the format:

Office                  ID               Date             Kiosk     Session Number  Variety

Trafalgar Sq  015010     29 Feb 2014            1             012345            Pondlife 4

I can accept the data in .xls  or .doc format.

e-mail address is   pmechuk@gmail.com

000000 Idents

I have just received some images from a contact which are very interesting. They all have the office ident 000000 which was last used at Trafalgar Square/William IV Street office in July 2012. The images may be seen on the Stamp Magazine website under Forum and Post and Go/Faststamps.

The examples appear, from postmarks, to have been posted in Bideford/Exeter/Devon area and dated 29 November 2012. They routed to the Heathrow World Distribution Centre (HWDC) and processed on IMP3. HWDC processing was as expected.

However, there are some major irregularities in the font used and the introduction of a new rate "Worldwide upto 30g" rate.

Images and full story may be found at: www.sites.google.com/site/pmechuk/

I have made contact with a few others and had replies suggesting that the items are very likely forgeries. If you have similar examples, please email me at pmechuk@gmail.com.

Apologies, I am having some problems uploading pictures to my blog site at the moment.

Wincor-Nixdorf and Hytech Cattle

I was fortunate to re-visit the Autumn Stampex event on the 28th September for the release of the Cattle faststamps. I wanted examples from both the Wincor-Nixdorf and the Hytech on the first day.

I stopped off at William IV Street/Trafalgar Square to obtain examples of the "normal" Wincor stamps. Kiosks 1 and 2 were vending sheep and kiosks 3 and 4 were producing the cattle stamps. I purchased single examples of the faststamps from kiosks 1 to 3 and two sets of six first class stamps from kiosk 4 to fill FDC requirements.

The Wincors produced were as expected - font 1 and with the normal ident (015010). The datastring is as normal - 015010 4-06244-01. The receipt had one minor variation - the address was all on one line and in lower case lettering. Of note is the session number, 06244, which is low. This would suggest a resetting around the 17th July. This is about the same time as the 000000 fault on kiosk 1 which was also reset about that time.

The Hytech produced a new form of datastring which includes letters - A9GB12 A1-000259-06. The "A" in A1 indicates a kiosk which may be used by the public, "B" is a backroom kiosk and "C" is for Philatelic Bureau produced items. The basic receipts for the Hytech are much simpler and yet more complicated than the Wincors but come in two or more parts - the basic order receipt (illustrated) a card receipt (not illustrated) and a receipt for any collector's strips.

The fonts in use in both kiosks for printing the stamps now seem to match each other.

Both sets were cancelled by the Stampex first day cancel for this set.

Autumn Stampex Part 2

I managed another visit to Stampex today for the release of the Cattle faststamps. Cover was arranged and off I went with my first stop being William IV Street/Trafalgar Square (015010). Kiosks 1 and 2 were vending sheep and 3 and 4 the cattle stamps. A set from kiosk 3 was purchased and put onto FDC (which was subsequently posted at Stampex). Individual examples from each kiosk were purchased. 

Trafalgar Square Kiosk 3 (28/9/12)

Kiosk 4 has been producing a variety on the receipt were the address is on a single line and in lower case text.

Trafalgar Square receipt from 26/9/12. This format was also seen on the 28th.

Next stop was Aldwych (008010). There  was the suggestion on a blog that a third kiosk may have been installed. I can definitely state that there are still two kiosks at this office vending cattle stamps.

Back to Charing Cross underground and the Northern line to Euston then change to the Bank branch to Angel and the Design Centre. I arrived around 12.30 and the Royal Mail stand was quieter than it was on the morning of the first day but it was still doing good business.

Kiosk A1 was set up to just sell the cattle stamps while A2 was vending both jubilee flags and cattle. The cattle stamps were also available from B1 and B2 from the counter. I purchased examples from all four kiosks and prepared a cover using stamps from A2.

Kiosk B1 at Stampex (28/9/12)

The presentation packs were also available. The stamps have the data string A9NL12 C2-051840-06.

Final stop was Old Street (028003) where the same blog reported that two more kiosks were due at the end of July. This office has undergone quite a make over giving it a more spacious layout by removing some office space. There are four kiosks numbered 2, 1, 3 and 4. Kiosk 2 was out of order during my visit but other three were vending the cattle stamps.

 Old Street Kiosk 3 (28/9/12)

Old Street Kiosk 4 (28/9/12)

In the last Stampex  blog entry, I mentioned the number of receipts issued for an order. As well as the receipt for the overall order, receipts were produced for each of the collector’s strip and another for the card payment. All but the card payment receipt are illustrated here.

Finally an example of the flag stamp from the new kiosk (number 3) at Clapham on the 26th September with the associated receipt.

Kennsington High Street Crown Office, London W8.

Originally this office was sited at 257 Kennsington High Street but is now at 208-212 which is just about opposite the old office. The old office only had one kiosk present and items produced by this office had the office ident 011006. The current office has two kiosks. The office ident is now 012006.

I visited the office at 208-212 on the 10th July 2010 and the items obtained from both kiosks.

Kiosk 1 receipts had no address while kiosk 2 had the address in upper case lettering and the building number on a separate line. Kiosk 1 was vending sheep stamps while kiosk 2 was vending pigs. Session numbers for both kiosks on the 10 July 2012 may be obtained from the images above.

208-212 Kennsington High Street - present location.

257 Kennsington High Street - old location.

I visited the old office in July 2010 and the extract from the summary table from my pmechuk website is given below.

011006

W8 6DB

257 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6DB

27/11/09

The kiosk was at session 11693 on 16/7/10. No logo was printed on receipts.

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I hope to add further entries giving details of items obtained from various Wincor-Nixdorf offices. In this way, I hope the evidence that I am producing will assist collectors of this material. I would welcome feedback and data on session numbers, stamps vended, errors and varieties, problems, etc at any and all offices throughout the UK. Either add a comment to this site or e-mail me at pmechuk@gmail.com.

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.

Wincor Survey Results

Stardate: 030612

It has been about two weeks since the flag issue’s release and what has come back has dried up. Twelve out of thirty-nine offices targeted in the mailshot failed to return anything for some unknown reason. In some instances, it may be that the request and/or payment failed to get through because it went missing in the sorting office. One item from this mailing is known to have arrived at the destination complete except for the payment which went missing en route.

Other previous mailings have also disappeared with payment. All were processed at the same outward mail centre. I can only guess what happened to the missing correspondence.

Unless otherwise indicated font 2 were in use in all of the kiosks reported.

		MAILSHOT
Post code	PO id	Location	Date on Receipt	Kiosk/ Session/ Issue	Notes
AB11	002801	Aberdeen	21/5/12	K1 19550 Flag
B91	017246	Solihull	21/5/12	K1 74479 Flag K2 61602 Flag
B98	009246	Redditch		K1	No return by 2/6/12
BA1	015504	Bath	22/5/12	K1 8118 Flag K2 45210 Flag	Kiosk 1 address made up of both upper and lower case lettering. Kiosk2 address in lowercase. Has “city of bath”  as top line of address.
BA20	010925	Yeovil	21/5/12	K1 ------- K2 50035 Flag
BN21	017907	Eastbourne	21/5/12	K1 10017 Flag K2 -------	Kiosk 1 address in lower case on receipt.
CO1	010116	Colchester	24/5/12	K1 46964 Flag K2	21/5/12 Receipts not printing. 24/5/12 NORTH HILL in block lettering on receipt.
DA1	002104	Dartford	28/5/12	K1 25033 Flag K2 28186 Flag	Original mailing arrived at this office (18/5/12) without payment – went missing en route. Replacement posted on 21/5/12. Problems with kiosks during the week 21-28/5/12.
DH3	003313	Chester-le-St	21/5/12	K1 15457
DN31	012311	Grimsby		K1 K2	No return by 2/6/12
EH1	003824	Edinburgh		K1 K2	No return by 2/6/12
EX1	021519	Exeter	See Blog of 9/6/12	K1 K2 K3	No return by 2/6/12 See Blog of 9/6/12
EX8	011519	Exmouth	21/5/12	K1  5142 Flag	Address in lower case on receipt. No space in the postcode.
G2	002832	Glasgow	21/5/12	K1  77736 K2  83821-83861 Flag K3  77287	Only examples of K2 returned but receipts from all three kiosks sent.
HR1	008618	Hereford	21/5/12	K1 62300 Flag K2 71249 Flag
IP1	014130	Ipswich	21/5/12	K1 1421 Flag	Address has the town in block capitals - IPSWICH
IP33	004112	Bury St Edmunds	21/5/12	K1  53613 Flag	No spacing in the address on the receipts.
LU1	006134	Luton	21/5/12	K1 69169 Flag K2 63379 Flag	Kiosk 1 had the address in full and in lower case. “=” used between smiths=lane and no gap in postcode. Kiosk2 in block lettering and consisted of ARNDALE 42SMITHLANEMALL.
M2 5	009422	Brazennose St Manchester		K1 K2	No return by 2/6/12
ME10	007941	Sittingbourne		K1	No return by 2/6/12
ME13	010941	Faversham	21/5/12	K1 11522 Flag
MK9	009109	Milton Keynes	21/5/12	K1 13627 Flag K2 16249 Flag	Kiosk 1 has both upper and lower case lettering. Kiosk 2 has the address in block capitals.
NE33	021329	South Shields	21/5/12	K1 3605 Flag K2 30567 Flag
NG1	007227	Nottingham		K1 K2	No return by 2/6/12
OX1	014137	Oxford	21/5/12	K1 5983 Flag K2 5101 Flag	Address on the receipts from both kiosks in lower case. No space in postcode.
PE21	003202	Boston	21/5/12	K1 16322 Flag
PO6	003937	Portsmouth	21/5/12	K1 17520 Flag	Receipts using Ł instead of £
PO16	014937	Fareham	21/5/12	K1 43789 Flag K2 44158 Flag
PR9	005427	Southport		K1	No return by 2/6/12
RH10	007912	Crawley	21/5/12	K1 24519 Flag
RH12	003912	Horsham		K1 K2	No return by 2/6/12
RH16	005912	Haywards Heath		K1 K2	No return by 2/6/12
S40	011340	Chesterfield	21/5/12	K1 57145 Flag K2 66780 Flag
SL6	005946	Maidenhead	29/5/12	K1   ------- K2 39229-20353 Flag
SR1	005343	Sunderland	21/5/12	K1  321 Flag K2  3060 Flag
SS1	009140	Southend on Sea	21/5/12	K1 37066 Flag K2 54136 Flag
TN13	004948	Sevenoaks		K1	No return by 2/6/12
TN23	010925	Ashford		K1	No return by 2/6/12
YO1	005349	York	21/5/12	K1 84330 Flag K2 71859 -71879 Flag
		Visited	on	21/5/12
WC2N	015010	William IV	21/5/12	K1  87328 Pigs K2  79730 Pigs K3  81471 Flag K4  80572 Flag	Only two kiosks had the flag issue – kiosks 3 and 4. The other two were vending the pig issue.
WC2B	008010	Aldwych	21/5/12	K1  38739 Flag K2  23747 Flag
SW1H	010011	Broadway	21/5/12	K1  42997 Flag K2  98502 Flag
SW11	019001	Lavender Hill	21/5/12	K1  26729 Flag
SW4	005008	Clapham High Street	21/5/12	K1 6555 Machin K2 6959 Machin	Both kiosks were vending the Machins. Font 2 restored in both. “newvision®” at the bottom of receipts from kiosk 2. Kiosk 1 includes “London” in the address while kiosk 2 doesn’t.
SE1	004007	Blackfriars	21/5/12	K1 7053 Pig	“newvision®” at the bottom of receipt.
EC3M	030003	Eastcheap	21/5/12	K1 19565 Flag K2 88845 Flag	No address on receipts from kiosk 1.
SE1	006007	Borough High Street	21/5/12	K1 72653 Flag K2 67256 Flag
		Additions
HA1	022020	College Road, Harrow	2/6/12	K1 35561 Flag K2 4915   Flag	Font 2 on this date. Certificate of posting as a blank line between Harrow and the postcode whereas receipt doesn’t on Kiosk 1. (Visited on this date.)
HA1	022020	College Road, Harrow	21/5/12 22/5/12	K1 K2 4300 Flag K2 4423 Flag	Font 1 in use on 21-22/5/12 (Norphil)
AL	010033	St Albans	25/4/12	K1	Pig stamps on sale using font1. (Norphil)
GL1	014523	King St, Gloucester	25/5/12	K1 53890 Flag	Font 1 in use. (ebay)

I would welcome any reports on all offices. Please include date, kiosk, session and issue data. Other observations on the receipt content and format would be a bonus.