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This one was from a British ex-patriot living in Thailand (notice the airmail etiquette that says "Royal Mail"?) franked with a metered label. That's something I haven't seen before from Thailand. When I was with the Air Force Rescue & Recovery Squadron stationed at Udorn back in the early 70's, one baht was about $0.05. Don't know what it is now a days.
Then there is a really colorful tilapia fish from Singapore.
Finally, a clever envelope from Belgium. The sender taped a stamped postcard to the envelope and then added a couple more stamps to make the airmail rate.
So.... What kinds of mail find their way into your post box?
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Lee Payette"s stamps from Canada!
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Terry: Royal mail, because Thailand is a Kingdom. 
I received this fully stamped cover (my name and address blacked out for posting). I get these occasionally but my postal carrier doesn't seem to care one way or the other. However, when I ship items to buyers, I always use a variety of stamps if possible, and the clerks at the small local post office oftentimes pause to examine the older stamps and are quite fascinated at the variety in US postage over the years.
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"i get mainly auto insurance and hearing aid advertisements !!!! "
What ?
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I said, said the blind man, to the deaf man, as he picked up a five dollar bill.
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Mine are medical bills- they go right into the round file!!!
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Terry:
How about this for an unimaginative selection of postage stamps?
John Derry
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The Royal Mail cover posted by Peter (cococollecibles) has confirmed that only USPS but others are also prone to the 'cover-killer' ball point pen cancels. A nice cover destroyed by a lazy postal worker!
I always request my mail senders to use a single proper high denomination or as less stamps as possible on my mails.
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I wouldn't call the postal worker "lazy". Postal workers have an obligation to protect the revenue of their postal service. The pen cancels could have been applied by the carrier who was dropping the parcel off at the delivery point. In the US, carriers do not carry cancelers.
Philatelists may not like it, but the worker was doing what he/she was supposed to do.
If you want to assess blame, how about the person who mailed the parcel and didn't take it to the postal counter to have a clerk there apply a hand cancel.
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Today's mail was "Linn's", 5 catalogs, a sales flyer from Kohl's and 2 presorted #10 envelopes trying to sell me something. The only thing not in the circular file as of this moment is the Linn's. Will probably read it tomorrow. Fairly typical. Oh yeah--to get something with a stamp, any stamp, is a real treat.
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Bills. Glad to share with you all
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I get mainly presorted stuff with no stamps. Today however, I received a wonderful envelope containing cancelled Waves stamps - a five dollar and a ten dollar stamp. These were thoughtfully returned from a man serving in the army in Afghanistan after we mailed him a package. I had included a self addressed stamped envelope for him to use and so also received a really great military post office cancel.
Michael78651 - what do you think about this: i carefully apply stamps to a package to my parents (who will save it for me). I take it to my tiny rural post office where my postal worker is happy to carefully apply the nice circle cancel just in the right spot on the stamps. Said cancel is clearly visible. Parents call to report package arrival with stamps all covered in red or black sharpie marker by their post office. I have some choice thoughts about their postman.........$&@?(!;$&. Sally
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I guess I totally missed the general question of this post and assumed it was "what kind of philatelic theme mail do you get"; in the general case, I get what everyone else has mentioned, but also incredibly annoying Spanish language advertisements from AT&T, Comcast, etc. just because of my last name. (We're Portuguese, not Spanish.)
About the front of the cover I posted, it is actually unusual for me to have them pen canceled and I agree with Michael, it was probably the delivery carrier or arrival post office that did it; I get more mail from the UK where the multiple stamps have no cancel at all. In fact, that is more the typical case than having them canceled.
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Anyone notice that Johns cover came from Nanuvet, the newest and least populated Canadian territory. Probably lucky that they have POs at all, much less stamps. Cant be that many packages coming out of Nanuvet
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"Anyone notice that Johns cover came from Nanuvet, the newest and least populated Canadian territory. Probably lucky that they have POs at all, much less stamps. Cant be that many packages coming out of Nanuvet
David"
Good catch, David!! I've never seen mail from there before.
And BTW, it's Nunavut, as in:
"Did you enjoy the Brussels Sprouts?"
"No, Nunavut!"
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guess i could have copied from the package, eh?
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A friend of ours bless her heart is retired from Canada Post...she would mention how people in remote locations would get things such as a case of Coca Cola mailed to them..i guess you do what you gotta do !!!
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USPS subsidizes deliveries such things to Alaska. There's even a name for it, but I forget.
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Besides mail from ebay, bidstart, and SOR sellers, I get mail either wanting me to buy a hearing aid or wanting to cremate me. I hope that both events do not happen at the same time.
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Sally, the carrier destroying the post-marked cover with a Sharpie is definitely over-exuberance, and would/does upset me when it happens. A chat with the carrier/clerk about how disappointing such an act was, and what a waste it is to take the time to cancel something that is already canceled usually does the trick of stopping that. They even now hand cancel anything coming in that lacks a cancel.
Yeah, I get my share of bills too, but almost everyday is something from AARP. Got a couple of free LED flashlights from them. I throw everything else from them in the recycle bin.
I'll take a picture of a package I got from Jersey and post it here when I start the semi-finals of the tournament. Nicely franked. I haven't soaked the stamps yet.
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BTW, if anyone wants that piece with the pen canceled GB stamps, just send me a SASE (large envelope, 1 ounce postage; unless you want it folded!).
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Peter
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"but i already have to wear glasses at times and a partial denture...not wanting a hearing aid !!!!"
Well, Phil, I've worn glasses since 3rd grade (when the optometrist asks about the chart on the wall I say "What wall?") and hearing aids since last Oct. I had no idea my hearing was that bad--missing large parts of conversations, had the TV volume pumped way up, and no longer truly enjoyed music. The world of hearing aids has really advanced (unfortunately so have the prices--but you can deduct the cost as medical expenses for the tax man) and I have most of my world back. The best part (for me) is the music.
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Roger thats great you can hear your music..i have the semi classical station on the TV and in my car, it is relaxing. i was nearsighted and got my glasses around 13 also..it was amazing when i put the glasses on i could read the movie theater marquee halfway down the block !! Now i can pass my drivers test without glasses..but can not read the small print !!
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Every day I get several packages or envelopes with stamps in them. I can't figure how to shut it off, they keep coming. I don't see the bills, they are all on auto-pay or the insurance companies cover them. Live is good, but I keep getting these stamps deliveries???.
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Hey Dan -
I'm sure if those stamp deliveries become too much for you, there are some people who would be happy to take them off your hands. We wouldn't want to see you overburdened by your postal deliveries
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All sorts of bills come through the mail...but my wife pays them almost all electronicly..so the only mail that goes out is to stamp collectors..you know how the mail person studies the envelopes.."wow these stamps are real old!" Really ? are stamps from the 1980s old ?
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Here are the stamps I got in the package I received from Jersey:
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Wow, Michael, as a Jersey collector, I'm jealous.
That's definitely something to keep on cover, in my mind. BOB
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It's on a box that's more than a foot square. Right now I plan to soak them off when I get around to doing it.
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Not much letters are sent in Denmark by others than private people like us. Sometimes I receive a letter from my employee sending me timesheets. Apart from that I only receive mail from friends and collector buddies, last friday this arrived in my mailbox 
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Bills. I get lots of bills.
The only thing moderately interesting I get are an assortment of newsletters from various quite small associations and societies... that have nothing to do with stamp collecting, but they mail out these newsletters in actual envelopes... with stamps, sometimes with 2nd oe 3rd ounce rates.
~Peter
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I get mail I either immediately throw away (85% maybe) and mail I put in a pile and ignore until the lawyers call.
The only thing I look forward to are packages (mostly not USPS) or the APS Magazine.
(Note, if your not an APS member, you should be because you'd get this mail too and support the hobby!)
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Junk and bills. Mostly junk. Political and Insurance junk. If I had a dollar for every dollar the insurance companies, Life, Auto, Health can save me. I would be rich beyond comprehension.
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Support USPS - put all those postage paid business envelopes and cards that come with the junk mail in the mail. You don't have to put your name or address on them.
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I, too, get mostly junk mail and metered stuff, but I have an eye doctor and an exterminator that both send post card reminders. Occasionally I will get a properly used PNC single on cover from them. The only other thing of interest would be the contrived covers from fellow philatelists, but I throw them in a box and donate them to a local stamp club. That sort of thing doesn't interest me.
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There is one thing that In learned over the years and that is that if you want to get interesting stamps on your mail, you must use interesting stamps on outbound mail and if you want letters from people, you have to write and send letters. "Is that "two things" or one compound thing ?
I mail several chatty rambling letters each week and as a result usually get several very interesting covers from all over the world each week usually with just as interesting letters and often small bunches of stamps from someone's mail stream.
I have several corespondents with whom I have exchanged notes for over a dozen years.
Some days I spend more time composing comments than mounting stamp. But to me that is just as interesting as cleaning and mounting stamps.
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I gotta tell ya, my Postman really enjoys delivering mail to my house! Here are three of the letters he delivered yesterday.
This one was from a British ex-patriot living in Thailand (notice the airmail etiquette that says "Royal Mail"?) franked with a metered label. That's something I haven't seen before from Thailand. When I was with the Air Force Rescue & Recovery Squadron stationed at Udorn back in the early 70's, one baht was about $0.05. Don't know what it is now a days.
Then there is a really colorful tilapia fish from Singapore.
Finally, a clever envelope from Belgium. The sender taped a stamped postcard to the envelope and then added a couple more stamps to make the airmail rate.
So.... What kinds of mail find their way into your post box?
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Lee Payette"s stamps from Canada!
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Terry: Royal mail, because Thailand is a Kingdom.
I received this fully stamped cover (my name and address blacked out for posting). I get these occasionally but my postal carrier doesn't seem to care one way or the other. However, when I ship items to buyers, I always use a variety of stamps if possible, and the clerks at the small local post office oftentimes pause to examine the older stamps and are quite fascinated at the variety in US postage over the years.
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Peter
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"i get mainly auto insurance and hearing aid advertisements !!!! "
What ?
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I said, said the blind man, to the deaf man, as he picked up a five dollar bill.
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06 Aug 2013
05:44:53pm
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Mine are medical bills- they go right into the round file!!!
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06 Aug 2013
06:19:31pm
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Terry:
How about this for an unimaginative selection of postage stamps?
John Derry
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The Royal Mail cover posted by Peter (cococollecibles) has confirmed that only USPS but others are also prone to the 'cover-killer' ball point pen cancels. A nice cover destroyed by a lazy postal worker!
I always request my mail senders to use a single proper high denomination or as less stamps as possible on my mails.
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I wouldn't call the postal worker "lazy". Postal workers have an obligation to protect the revenue of their postal service. The pen cancels could have been applied by the carrier who was dropping the parcel off at the delivery point. In the US, carriers do not carry cancelers.
Philatelists may not like it, but the worker was doing what he/she was supposed to do.
If you want to assess blame, how about the person who mailed the parcel and didn't take it to the postal counter to have a clerk there apply a hand cancel.
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Today's mail was "Linn's", 5 catalogs, a sales flyer from Kohl's and 2 presorted #10 envelopes trying to sell me something. The only thing not in the circular file as of this moment is the Linn's. Will probably read it tomorrow. Fairly typical. Oh yeah--to get something with a stamp, any stamp, is a real treat.
Roger
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Bills. Glad to share with you all
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I get mainly presorted stuff with no stamps. Today however, I received a wonderful envelope containing cancelled Waves stamps - a five dollar and a ten dollar stamp. These were thoughtfully returned from a man serving in the army in Afghanistan after we mailed him a package. I had included a self addressed stamped envelope for him to use and so also received a really great military post office cancel.
Michael78651 - what do you think about this: i carefully apply stamps to a package to my parents (who will save it for me). I take it to my tiny rural post office where my postal worker is happy to carefully apply the nice circle cancel just in the right spot on the stamps. Said cancel is clearly visible. Parents call to report package arrival with stamps all covered in red or black sharpie marker by their post office. I have some choice thoughts about their postman.........$&@?(!;$&. Sally
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I guess I totally missed the general question of this post and assumed it was "what kind of philatelic theme mail do you get"; in the general case, I get what everyone else has mentioned, but also incredibly annoying Spanish language advertisements from AT&T, Comcast, etc. just because of my last name. (We're Portuguese, not Spanish.)
About the front of the cover I posted, it is actually unusual for me to have them pen canceled and I agree with Michael, it was probably the delivery carrier or arrival post office that did it; I get more mail from the UK where the multiple stamps have no cancel at all. In fact, that is more the typical case than having them canceled.
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Anyone notice that Johns cover came from Nanuvet, the newest and least populated Canadian territory. Probably lucky that they have POs at all, much less stamps. Cant be that many packages coming out of Nanuvet
David
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"Anyone notice that Johns cover came from Nanuvet, the newest and least populated Canadian territory. Probably lucky that they have POs at all, much less stamps. Cant be that many packages coming out of Nanuvet
David"
Good catch, David!! I've never seen mail from there before.
And BTW, it's Nunavut, as in:
"Did you enjoy the Brussels Sprouts?"
"No, Nunavut!"
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guess i could have copied from the package, eh?
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A friend of ours bless her heart is retired from Canada Post...she would mention how people in remote locations would get things such as a case of Coca Cola mailed to them..i guess you do what you gotta do !!!
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USPS subsidizes deliveries such things to Alaska. There's even a name for it, but I forget.
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Besides mail from ebay, bidstart, and SOR sellers, I get mail either wanting me to buy a hearing aid or wanting to cremate me. I hope that both events do not happen at the same time.
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Sally, the carrier destroying the post-marked cover with a Sharpie is definitely over-exuberance, and would/does upset me when it happens. A chat with the carrier/clerk about how disappointing such an act was, and what a waste it is to take the time to cancel something that is already canceled usually does the trick of stopping that. They even now hand cancel anything coming in that lacks a cancel.
Yeah, I get my share of bills too, but almost everyday is something from AARP. Got a couple of free LED flashlights from them. I throw everything else from them in the recycle bin.
I'll take a picture of a package I got from Jersey and post it here when I start the semi-finals of the tournament. Nicely franked. I haven't soaked the stamps yet.
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BTW, if anyone wants that piece with the pen canceled GB stamps, just send me a SASE (large envelope, 1 ounce postage; unless you want it folded!).
Cheers,
Peter
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"but i already have to wear glasses at times and a partial denture...not wanting a hearing aid !!!!"
Well, Phil, I've worn glasses since 3rd grade (when the optometrist asks about the chart on the wall I say "What wall?") and hearing aids since last Oct. I had no idea my hearing was that bad--missing large parts of conversations, had the TV volume pumped way up, and no longer truly enjoyed music. The world of hearing aids has really advanced (unfortunately so have the prices--but you can deduct the cost as medical expenses for the tax man) and I have most of my world back. The best part (for me) is the music.
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Roger thats great you can hear your music..i have the semi classical station on the TV and in my car, it is relaxing. i was nearsighted and got my glasses around 13 also..it was amazing when i put the glasses on i could read the movie theater marquee halfway down the block !! Now i can pass my drivers test without glasses..but can not read the small print !!
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Every day I get several packages or envelopes with stamps in them. I can't figure how to shut it off, they keep coming. I don't see the bills, they are all on auto-pay or the insurance companies cover them. Live is good, but I keep getting these stamps deliveries???.
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Hey Dan -
I'm sure if those stamp deliveries become too much for you, there are some people who would be happy to take them off your hands. We wouldn't want to see you overburdened by your postal deliveries
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All sorts of bills come through the mail...but my wife pays them almost all electronicly..so the only mail that goes out is to stamp collectors..you know how the mail person studies the envelopes.."wow these stamps are real old!" Really ? are stamps from the 1980s old ?
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Here are the stamps I got in the package I received from Jersey:
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Wow, Michael, as a Jersey collector, I'm jealous.
That's definitely something to keep on cover, in my mind. BOB
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It's on a box that's more than a foot square. Right now I plan to soak them off when I get around to doing it.
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Not much letters are sent in Denmark by others than private people like us. Sometimes I receive a letter from my employee sending me timesheets. Apart from that I only receive mail from friends and collector buddies, last friday this arrived in my mailbox
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Bills. I get lots of bills.
The only thing moderately interesting I get are an assortment of newsletters from various quite small associations and societies... that have nothing to do with stamp collecting, but they mail out these newsletters in actual envelopes... with stamps, sometimes with 2nd oe 3rd ounce rates.
~Peter
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I get mail I either immediately throw away (85% maybe) and mail I put in a pile and ignore until the lawyers call.
The only thing I look forward to are packages (mostly not USPS) or the APS Magazine.
(Note, if your not an APS member, you should be because you'd get this mail too and support the hobby!)
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Junk and bills. Mostly junk. Political and Insurance junk. If I had a dollar for every dollar the insurance companies, Life, Auto, Health can save me. I would be rich beyond comprehension.
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Support USPS - put all those postage paid business envelopes and cards that come with the junk mail in the mail. You don't have to put your name or address on them.
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I, too, get mostly junk mail and metered stuff, but I have an eye doctor and an exterminator that both send post card reminders. Occasionally I will get a properly used PNC single on cover from them. The only other thing of interest would be the contrived covers from fellow philatelists, but I throw them in a box and donate them to a local stamp club. That sort of thing doesn't interest me.
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There is one thing that In learned over the years and that is that if you want to get interesting stamps on your mail, you must use interesting stamps on outbound mail and if you want letters from people, you have to write and send letters. "Is that "two things" or one compound thing ?
I mail several chatty rambling letters each week and as a result usually get several very interesting covers from all over the world each week usually with just as interesting letters and often small bunches of stamps from someone's mail stream.
I have several corespondents with whom I have exchanged notes for over a dozen years.
Some days I spend more time composing comments than mounting stamp. But to me that is just as interesting as cleaning and mounting stamps.
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