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As a collector of transportation cancelled covers, here is a cover which I am very pleased to finally own.
During late 1927 the USPOD added a truck to deliver the mail between the Main Post Office in downtown Chicago and the Chicago Municipal Airport. In keeping with the expedited nature of the airmail service, the USPOD decided that adding processing and cancelling mail in the truck during the trip was advantageous. As a result, a truly unique "Chi & Air Mail Field Motor Truck" postmark was used.
The truck typically made a single 25 minute round trip but sometimes made as many as three or four round trips in a single day. The use of the 'Motor Truck' service was very short-lived, only lasting from October 25, 1927 through July 1, 1928 (when they began using closed pouches and no longer processed mail onboard the truck).
Truck at Chicago air field.
It has now been determined that the majority of these cancels found today are on the Lindberg inaugural CAM-2 covers. CAM-2 air service (both North and South routes) flew between Chicago Illinois and Saint Louis Missouri with interim stops in Peoria and Springfield Illinois. My cover was flown on the special flight over CAM Route 2 from Chicago to Oakland, California via St. Louis, Missouri on February' 21, 1928. . The cover carries the horseshoe-shaped cachet associated with the pilot, Charles A. Lindbergh. The black ink cachet announced "Lindbergh Again Flies the Air Mail" since this flight represented the temporary return of Lindbergh to airmail service for just two days, February 20 and 21, 1928, along the Chicago-Peoria-Springfield-St. Louis route.
CAM-2 Flight path
AAMS Catalog value of CAM-2 Motor Truck covers
As a collector of Highway Post Office covers (I have over 6000 of them), I consider this cover an example of a service which was a forerunner of processing mail in a motor vehicle.
Don
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Don,
A very nice cover and very well written up. As a fellow collector of transportation covers (in a small way), I'm quite envious.
Regards ... Tim
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That is a great piece of postal history, Don. Something to keep an eye out for.
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Very cool Don!
I do have two of the "Lindberg Flies The Mail" covers, but mine are machine cancels from Chicago and Springfield. I did pull them out of the album to check the backs. No such luck! 
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As a collector of transportation cancelled covers, here is a cover which I am very pleased to finally own.
During late 1927 the USPOD added a truck to deliver the mail between the Main Post Office in downtown Chicago and the Chicago Municipal Airport. In keeping with the expedited nature of the airmail service, the USPOD decided that adding processing and cancelling mail in the truck during the trip was advantageous. As a result, a truly unique "Chi & Air Mail Field Motor Truck" postmark was used.
The truck typically made a single 25 minute round trip but sometimes made as many as three or four round trips in a single day. The use of the 'Motor Truck' service was very short-lived, only lasting from October 25, 1927 through July 1, 1928 (when they began using closed pouches and no longer processed mail onboard the truck).
Truck at Chicago air field.
It has now been determined that the majority of these cancels found today are on the Lindberg inaugural CAM-2 covers. CAM-2 air service (both North and South routes) flew between Chicago Illinois and Saint Louis Missouri with interim stops in Peoria and Springfield Illinois. My cover was flown on the special flight over CAM Route 2 from Chicago to Oakland, California via St. Louis, Missouri on February' 21, 1928. . The cover carries the horseshoe-shaped cachet associated with the pilot, Charles A. Lindbergh. The black ink cachet announced "Lindbergh Again Flies the Air Mail" since this flight represented the temporary return of Lindbergh to airmail service for just two days, February 20 and 21, 1928, along the Chicago-Peoria-Springfield-St. Louis route.
CAM-2 Flight path
AAMS Catalog value of CAM-2 Motor Truck covers
As a collector of Highway Post Office covers (I have over 6000 of them), I consider this cover an example of a service which was a forerunner of processing mail in a motor vehicle.
Don
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re: 1928 Chicago 'Motor Truck' Cover
Don,
A very nice cover and very well written up. As a fellow collector of transportation covers (in a small way), I'm quite envious.
Regards ... Tim
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re: 1928 Chicago 'Motor Truck' Cover
That is a great piece of postal history, Don. Something to keep an eye out for.
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re: 1928 Chicago 'Motor Truck' Cover
Very cool Don!
I do have two of the "Lindberg Flies The Mail" covers, but mine are machine cancels from Chicago and Springfield. I did pull them out of the album to check the backs. No such luck!
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