Stamped posters in Paris metro

This morning, I saw the new ad campaign of Île-de-France regional railways network, Transilien. The posters are aimed at foreign tourists who may need its website to go outside Paris by train.

On a table, are exposed postcards and what are rest of a meal taken in a café or a restaurant. The card in the foreground shows a correspondance in foreign language and the correct franking.

The imaginary tourist describes the visit he made to a francilian place, where he could go thank to a Transilien train. On the left, the letter is translated in French, and a message in the two languages explains how to have intels about trains, destinations and timetables.

On the left, the version in Polish about the Forest of Fontainebleau ; in the background and under this text, the Italian version (cathedrale of Évry inaugurated 1995). I saw a British and a German versions too. The franking is correct with a 0,60 € blue Marianne des Français.


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The Japanese version explained what lives the tourist in the Gallerie des Glaces of the Palace of Versailles. The stamp is the violet 0,85 €.

This picture confirms that they are the "Phil@poste" version of the stamps that was given to Transilien.

Only one problem : the cancellations. The tables are quite typic of French cafés and restaurants. How can the writer have them already cancelled under his nose ?

But they are realistic. For those pictured and shown here :
* Italian : classic with ondulations from Évry (by a Mégras machine, Yvon Nouazé thinks),
* Japanese : a rectangle from Versailles CDIS with codes D788 et 780130 (normally used by franking machine, not for cancellation),
* Polish : a coded Neopost : code 16234A (origin unknown at this time believing this inventory : a bright idea of Claude Jamet). Yvon Nouazé describe this obliteration and the machine that did it (translated from his mail) :

" [it] is the mark of a Toshiba TSC1000 machine that does: the segregation of mail by moving apart too thick, too heavy or too large covers ; straighten them upright ; cancel then and sort them by pre-defined destinations. This machine numerize the whole surface to read the adress and determine the nature of the mail : Prioritary letter or not, and in order to cancelled them accordingly. "

I will try to picture more posters this week-end (a new (free) saga).

If you are now in Paris, look for posters in the stations of touristic areas. I took these pictures in Pigalle (both on lines 2 and 12) and Anvers).

Update :
* My thanks to Yvon Nouazé who accepted to take some time to help me precise the descriptions of these three cancellations.