"The Catalogue of Money Order Office Number (MOON) Cancellations of BC" by Sagar

Description: "The Catalogue of Money Order Office Number (MOON) Cancellations of British Columbia (1950-1973)" by Michael Sagar Privately Published by the authorAuthor: Michael Sagar, 199790 pages, 8½" x11", staple bound Black & whiteOriginal List Price $22.95 Condition: Pre-owned / LIKE NEW! Michael Sagar, of Richmond, B.C., has been chronicling the MOON cancels of Canada for more than two decades, during which time he produced six handbooks on the specialized area of collecting.The MOON system was introduced in 1923, said Sagar, who’s also secretary and treasurer of BNAPS Postal Stationery Study Group. “A four-digit number was assigned to each post office, presumably to ease with accounting,” he said. “Rather than Vancouver Sub Post Office Number 2, the entry would be ‘9812.’”The numbers first appeared on pre-cancelled stamps and post office forms after replacing the Money Order Transfer Office (MOTO) system.According to Sagar, integrating a post office’s MOON into a rubber cancel “started in earnest” in 1950 and continued until the MOON system became obsolete in the spring of 1973, when cancels with the six-digit Post Office Computer Organization Number (POCON) were introduced. Sagar said MOON cancels were the third of four families of cancels issued by the Post Office Department. They were generally rectangular and included the date; town name; and post office number. Numbers were assigned by province and then alphabetically within each province.HOW DID THE MOON SYSTEM WORK?Sagar said integration of a post office’s MOON into a rubber cancel (third from left) began in 1950. (Photo by Sagar)Sagar said each province was assigned a series of numbers for their post offices (Quebec was assigned 0001-1999, Ontario was assigned 2000-4999, and so on).“Holes were left in the assignments to accommodate potential name changes or expansions in urban areas,” he said. “Initially only ‘Accounting’ post offices – larger post offices with a full range of services – were assigned a MOON. In 1935, ‘non-accounting’ post offices – typically smaller, sometimes seasonal, with a narrower range of services including offering Money Orders in small amounts unto $15.99 – were assigned five-digit MOONs.”Sagar said paperwork such as money order forms, internal post office forms and receipts were printed with the post office’s MOON; however, the system eventually spread into postal markings and numbered precancels. “One of the initial problems with the MOON system was that Canada really needed 11,000 numbers, not 10,000 that a four-digit system would allow,” said Sagar. “The three Maritime provinces were assigned four-digit MOONs where the first character was an ‘X.’ When Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949, their post offices were assigned a four-digit MOON starting with a ‘Y.’” Further expansion and computerization of the postal system required a new way of tracking post office finances, and by April 1973, Canada moved all post offices to the six-digit POCON system.FASCINATING & INEXPENSIVE: Sagar said his interest was piqued by MOON cancels while studying the postmarks of British Columbia. “I found them fascinating, cheap – at the time – and had little competition. 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