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08 Oct 2013
03:41:56pm
This postcard looks like it is written and addressed in a foreign language, but it was postmarked in Delaware and has a receiving cancel showing that the postcard arrived the next day. How did it make it to its destination? Can anyone decipher the message or address? Image Not Found
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Tim
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08 Oct 2013
07:04:27pm
re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

LOL ... I think they really lucked out with the postal worker who processed this. Happy

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08 Oct 2013
07:47:10pm
re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

That postcard is written in shorthand. That is what stenographers and secretaries used when dictated a letter. They could write as fast as the person was talking.

A number of people learned shorthand, so it is without a doubt that there was more than one person at the post office who could read it.

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09 Oct 2013
12:20:17pm
re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

Thanks David!Very interesting; Do you have any idea what the message says?

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09 Oct 2013
03:07:06pm
re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

Definitely looks like Gregg Shorthand.


http://gregg.angelfishy.net/analphbt.shtml

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11 Oct 2013
03:30:55pm
re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

Thanks Poodle_Mum!

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08 Oct 2013
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This postcard looks like it is written and addressed in a foreign language, but it was postmarked in Delaware and has a receiving cancel showing that the postcard arrived the next day. How did it make it to its destination? Can anyone decipher the message or address? Image Not Found
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Tim
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08 Oct 2013
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re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

LOL ... I think they really lucked out with the postal worker who processed this. Happy

Regards ... Tim.

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08 Oct 2013
07:47:10pm

re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

That postcard is written in shorthand. That is what stenographers and secretaries used when dictated a letter. They could write as fast as the person was talking.

A number of people learned shorthand, so it is without a doubt that there was more than one person at the post office who could read it.

David

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Walden

09 Oct 2013
12:20:17pm

re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

Thanks David!Very interesting; Do you have any idea what the message says?

Frank

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09 Oct 2013
03:07:06pm

re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

Definitely looks like Gregg Shorthand.


http://gregg.angelfishy.net/analphbt.shtml

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11 Oct 2013
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re: How did this 1905 postcard make it to its destination?

Thanks Poodle_Mum!

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