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More than a month later, on August 25, a long envelope from the USPS arrived.
"At last," I thought, "my White House postcard!" Inside were the card, in a Ziploc-type baggie...
...and the sliced-up remains of my own mailing envelope, with three strong rubber-stamped boxes, "485" and the date July 26.
My assumption is that the White House destination got it shot over to whatever security site they check for bombs and anthrax. Or was it three locations, one each for the three rubber stamps?
Another mysterious thing about my little card is that the cockeyed postmark appears to be UNDERNEATH the Forever barn stamp. I don't think it's my stamp, because I didn't affix it as crooked as this:
Has anyone had a similar experience?
Oh, and a few days earlier, I received an unsolicited Autopen-signed 8x10 of President Biden!
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It’s though. It’s not legible while the rest is. Odd.
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Vinman and Joesm,
It does seem more likely that what looks like a manual hand stamp just didn't get pressed hard enough. And I can also see myself letting a crooked stamp on, rather than redoing the whole card.
Here's something else. I just noticed that my sliced-up outgoing envelope was, at some point, stapled to the plastic bag:
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Due to how they are made, many of today's modern US stamps do not accept cancels very well.
Quite often the ink doesn't transfer onto the stamp or when it does it looks smeared or smudged in comparison to the portion on the envelope.
I have seen this on many of my covers with new US stamps.
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Especially those spray-on cancellations.
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Well, at least I got to have a haircut in the Penny Lane barber shop.
26 Aug 2022
05:46:29pm
I created this postcard with my return address, so I could get a White House cancellation. I mailed it inside an envelope on July 14.
More than a month later, on August 25, a long envelope from the USPS arrived.
"At last," I thought, "my White House postcard!" Inside were the card, in a Ziploc-type baggie...
...and the sliced-up remains of my own mailing envelope, with three strong rubber-stamped boxes, "485" and the date July 26.
My assumption is that the White House destination got it shot over to whatever security site they check for bombs and anthrax. Or was it three locations, one each for the three rubber stamps?
Another mysterious thing about my little card is that the cockeyed postmark appears to be UNDERNEATH the Forever barn stamp. I don't think it's my stamp, because I didn't affix it as crooked as this:
Has anyone had a similar experience?
Oh, and a few days earlier, I received an unsolicited Autopen-signed 8x10 of President Biden!
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09:50:21pm
re: White House Postal Strangeness
It’s though. It’s not legible while the rest is. Odd.
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Well, at least I got to have a haircut in the Penny Lane barber shop.
27 Aug 2022
09:54:58am
re: White House Postal Strangeness
Vinman and Joesm,
It does seem more likely that what looks like a manual hand stamp just didn't get pressed hard enough. And I can also see myself letting a crooked stamp on, rather than redoing the whole card.
Here's something else. I just noticed that my sliced-up outgoing envelope was, at some point, stapled to the plastic bag:
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re: White House Postal Strangeness
Due to how they are made, many of today's modern US stamps do not accept cancels very well.
Quite often the ink doesn't transfer onto the stamp or when it does it looks smeared or smudged in comparison to the portion on the envelope.
I have seen this on many of my covers with new US stamps.
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Well, at least I got to have a haircut in the Penny Lane barber shop.
27 Aug 2022
12:28:44pm
re: White House Postal Strangeness
Especially those spray-on cancellations.
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