I save my daily junk mail franked with stamps, but I just throw them in a box, ikey.
I got one similar to that awhile back that was fake printed on a light blue envelope with a real looking return address label, with a real person's name, like a real person would put on a greeting card. I open it up, and it is a Direct TV ad in the form of a greeting card. Fake handwriting, fake mail, fake phone calls, fake news on TV, the whole world is going fake.
Linus
Hi ikey,
That is actual handwriting (albeit incredible handwriting).
When I digitally overlay the street 'Woodhaven' with the town 'Woodhaven' there are deltas especially towards the end of the word as shown here
If you go back and visually compare the last letter in your image, you can see the difference in the 'n'. I assume that this person handwrites 'Woodhaven' a lot and muscle memory is coming into play here.
Also consider kerning, digital fonts have to follow rules about kerning. The ZIP code does not follow the kerning rules which would require the space between each character to be consistent. The space between the '1's has to be the same if it was a handwriting font.
Don
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Q/ Do you mean to suggest that the sender was imitating a computer imitating a person?
Well-spotted, Don.
How appalling that anyone would laboriously hand-address junk mail.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who now feels bad about ignoring one dozen catalogs, driving the company to such desperate measures)
"How appalling that anyone would laboriously hand-address junk mail."
On another note, you guys probably already know this, but anyone can apply for a mailer's permit. You just fill out a small form with the postmaster, and you're all set. No charge.
I am holder of permit #3 at the Parkesburg, PA post office. What that gets me is the right to use special rate stamps (presorted, bulk rate, and the like) on my outgoing mail. I just have to write the permit number on the envelope somewhere. And, of course permitted mail has to be presented at the PO that issued the number.
Back when I was collecting mint plate number coils of all the new US releases, I would use up the surplus stamps with my permit number. Because, typically, the plate number is only every 25 or 40 or X stamps in a coil. I collected mint plate number strips of 5, with the plate number on the middle stamp. Gave up collecting new issues 10 or 15 years ago. I should probably sell all those mint plate number strips...and plate blocks.
-Paul
Just a short comment: A Mailer's Postmark Permit number and a Precanceled Stamp Permit are two different systems. A MPP allows one to cancel their mail and hand the letters to a postal clerk for dispatch. A Precancel permit allows one to use up their surplus "service inscribed" mint stamps on regular first class mail. I suppose one can use both on the same envelope.
Tad
"... Send in requests for travel information, especially small towns, and the visitor's bureaus volunteers will send you information often addressed by hand ..."
" A Precancel permit allows one to use up their surplus "service inscribed" mint stamps on regular first class mail."
'
Well, okay, what about this one?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
'
We have another winner!
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
Fonts That Fake Handwriting
Of peripheral concern to collectors of covers & postcards is whether/not the handwritten address/message was/not written by hand.
Shown below is an example of an address that is easily detected as not-so-handwritten because the street name is repeated in the city name.
Q/ Does anybody else set aside these Fonts That Fake Handwriting ?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
Bonus! This cover bore Mailer's Postmark Permit #121 from zip 24506:
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
I save my daily junk mail franked with stamps, but I just throw them in a box, ikey.
I got one similar to that awhile back that was fake printed on a light blue envelope with a real looking return address label, with a real person's name, like a real person would put on a greeting card. I open it up, and it is a Direct TV ad in the form of a greeting card. Fake handwriting, fake mail, fake phone calls, fake news on TV, the whole world is going fake.
Linus
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
Hi ikey,
That is actual handwriting (albeit incredible handwriting).
When I digitally overlay the street 'Woodhaven' with the town 'Woodhaven' there are deltas especially towards the end of the word as shown here
If you go back and visually compare the last letter in your image, you can see the difference in the 'n'. I assume that this person handwrites 'Woodhaven' a lot and muscle memory is coming into play here.
Also consider kerning, digital fonts have to follow rules about kerning. The ZIP code does not follow the kerning rules which would require the space between each character to be consistent. The space between the '1's has to be the same if it was a handwriting font.
Don
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
.
Q/ Do you mean to suggest that the sender was imitating a computer imitating a person?
Well-spotted, Don.
How appalling that anyone would laboriously hand-address junk mail.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who now feels bad about ignoring one dozen catalogs, driving the company to such desperate measures)
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
"How appalling that anyone would laboriously hand-address junk mail."
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
On another note, you guys probably already know this, but anyone can apply for a mailer's permit. You just fill out a small form with the postmaster, and you're all set. No charge.
I am holder of permit #3 at the Parkesburg, PA post office. What that gets me is the right to use special rate stamps (presorted, bulk rate, and the like) on my outgoing mail. I just have to write the permit number on the envelope somewhere. And, of course permitted mail has to be presented at the PO that issued the number.
Back when I was collecting mint plate number coils of all the new US releases, I would use up the surplus stamps with my permit number. Because, typically, the plate number is only every 25 or 40 or X stamps in a coil. I collected mint plate number strips of 5, with the plate number on the middle stamp. Gave up collecting new issues 10 or 15 years ago. I should probably sell all those mint plate number strips...and plate blocks.
-Paul
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
Just a short comment: A Mailer's Postmark Permit number and a Precanceled Stamp Permit are two different systems. A MPP allows one to cancel their mail and hand the letters to a postal clerk for dispatch. A Precancel permit allows one to use up their surplus "service inscribed" mint stamps on regular first class mail. I suppose one can use both on the same envelope.
Tad
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
"... Send in requests for travel information, especially small towns, and the visitor's bureaus volunteers will send you information often addressed by hand ..."
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
" A Precancel permit allows one to use up their surplus "service inscribed" mint stamps on regular first class mail."
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
'
Well, okay, what about this one?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
re: Fonts That Fake Handwriting
'
We have another winner!
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey