Click on the picture for more detail
Here are some various "Media Mail/Subject to Inspection" markings.
Opened For Inspection by the USPS
Some scans of the USPS's latest Ink jet Cancels
I don't have to know how to count, I'm a postal clerk not a rocket scientist!
(with apologies to most of the clerks in the Postal Service)
New Bar Coding?
Here's three of a kind (plus a PNC)
Paid by PVI
A selection of covers, (primarily from larger than letter size items)
showing various rates that have been paid by Postage Value Imprints
How much does that cost?
A selection of over and underpaid postcards and other
First seen (in Pomeroy anyway) in April 2004 is this cancel showing the 3 different SCFs -- Quincy (IL) 623; Hannibal (MO) 634; and Kirksville (MO) 635
For a view of the entire postcard, click here or on the picture.
An Interesting "double-double"
A cover received from an inmate in the Alabama State Prison System
An interesting combination of meter markings and a handstamp.
|
According to Terence Hines (founder of the Modern
Postal History Society) this is "the first example of this type of
spray-on I've seen." A portion of this cover was covered in Linn's Stamp News on October 7, 2002, page 10, saying, "This cover bears the first example of this cancel to come to Linn's attention."
|
 |
Received during August, 2004, is another example of this type of cancel. You can click on the picture to see a full-size scan. |
When in Pomeroy, visit the Buster House Tea Room
Interested in Auxiliary Markings on the mail? visit the Auxiliary Markings Club.
The 34 cent Greetings from America on cover
It's not Modern, but the Post
Offices of Garfield County
(off-site and this opens in a new
window)
Post Offices along Highway 12 & 14 in Western U.S.