Cover crossing has provided me with great pleasure and happiness as the excitement of getting a cover in my post box never seems to cease. Im sure all of you would agree with me.
However, at times when we open the post box, reality strikes!!! We tend to get very disappointed to see our cover damaged and vandalized. Mind you, its never about the sender as I'm sure we put a lot of effort to send the best possible cover to our partners.
So, who is to be BLAME?
Dear readers, as philatelist, Im sure all of us have face this kind of problems especially for Cover Collectors. Here, I would like to show some covers which are very very beautiful yet destroyed due to the carelessness of Postal Service staffs. I truly understand that these damages are NOT done intentionally, yet I feel pain when I received these covers. The efforts put to prepare a beautiful cover, hoping to surprise the recipients, and finally ending up like this. That's PAIN for me.
These are the damaged covers I received recently. Its a heartache yet I have to accept the fact, nothing comes easy in life, even covers.
A beautiful registered cover from Bangladesh. Please focus on the circled area. Stamp has been damaged.
Two beautiful covers damaged due to registration sticker. This is sad for the sticker is put directly on the stamps. Even worst, on all the stamps (1st cover).
