Spain postal activities (including postby.me tourist operator)

 Hi.

 This is following on from a post I made recently about postal experiments and covers I sent during my trip to Gibraltar this year.

 Here I will follow on with covers I got from the time I spent in Spain.

 Unfortunately I was not able to send anything with Post&Go stamps, as none of the offices (including a very big one in central Malaga) did not have a kiosk.

 I'm not showing all covers, just the more interesting ones. 

 Postby.me

Postby.me is a tourist-oriented postal operator similar to UniversalMail in the UK. However, it accepts envelopes, not just postcards, and from what I've read attatching multiple stamps could even get it to deliver larger items; I did not test this, and I'm not sure how one would post this considering the mailboxes I saw had very thin slots for inserting letters.
 
Regular postbyme stamp sent from regular postbyme green postbox.    
 
 
 Interestingly it has aquired an inkjet marking, seemingly trying to be a postmark, but missing the actual stamp. I did not see anything like this applied in previous years using the service. It took between 1-2 weeks longer to arrive than regular covers I sent from Spain, but unfortunately I did not record this.
 
Postby.me stamp sent from yellow Spanish Correos postbox, with "Delayed Delivery" marking. Arrived significantly later than others.      


Spanish Correos stamp sent from green postby.me postbox. 

You can see a Madrid postmark, while the postbox was nowhere near Madrid, so that's likely where it was handed over. Arrived slightly delayed.

 Correos Spain

Correos Tariff A domestic paid postal stationery envelope, with second tariff A stamp and counter-printed ATM labelapplied  to make tariff B 1.85 international rate.
Receipt

Spain domestic cecogramme sent at counter
Receipt

While I've seen examples online, I wasn't able to get a counter ATM label for the cecogramme, despite asking.


 

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