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| US 2012 -2013 APC / SSSMC US Postage Labels with "Missing Design" Error First reported error of this type in January! Purchased January 16, 2013 at the Irving, TX post office, zip 75061. The only previous known error was Nov. 13 at zip 75023 and in December 18, 2012 at 75080 (and I was the one that found those).Since this error occured in December, the date code now reads 01*13 (to the right of the word Forever); the previous errors were in November and thus read 11*12 and 12*12.The date code is 494 (last 3 digits of the code that begins with FE), meaning 1/16/13 (derived from adding 494 days to the date 9/10/11).How does this error occur? When the postage kiosks are in the "holiday mailbox" label mode, the kiosk expects the color pre-printed labels with the "mailbox" design to be present. When post office personnel replace the paper and use the older style blank labels (for use with the 6 different black & white on-demand printed designs) and forget to switch the kiosk back into the other mode, the kiosks thinks that labels are pre-printed and thus prints nothing where the design should be. So, it is a human error (but then again, the famous US "inverted Jenny" airplane stamp error was a human error as well, since someone fed the sheet into the press upside down).So technically, this is a "wrong paper" error, not a "missing design" error, but since there is no design on the stamp, it can be called a missing design error...You will receive as pictured, a STAMP missing design errors , as well as a 1c barcode "Fold-Here" label from the same kiosk and bought at the same time that proves that the kiosk was in the "mailbox" mode (if it WASN'T in the color mailbox label mode, then the barcode label would NOT print on the large printer (which has the pink stripe on the left0 and would instead print on the small labels).BB0553
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