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Are we certain that these letters could not have received a Sunday postmark some other way? Besides Rincon Annex? I want to be sure we have exhauste…
Just chiming in to say that the person who wrote the article linked below might be able to answer some of your questions. Although it looks like he di…
Thanks for finding and posting these, Simplicity. Nice to see them. Another bit of Rincon history. From the dates, these were both in the decade lead…
Questions that can hopefully be clarified by someone having worked in the San Francisco Postal Service across 1969/70, particularly if having worked a…
I will be shortly attempting to contact the gentleman identified kindly by Brubaker as someone who may be able to help us with the key questions we re…
Just chiming in to say that the person who wrote the article linked below might be able to answer some of your questions. Although it looks like he di…
One more question: What would be the reason for the automatic machines to be operating on Sundays, if there were few Sunday mailbox pickups in San Fr…
<Was it the case that there were separate freestanding mailboxes for ‘Local’ and for ‘Out of Town’ mail? This feels important.> I’m quite sure …
I have to admit, it does seem unlikely that they would take the time to hand-separate mail that was destined for nearby addresses. It’s possible that,…
<Assuming there were such Sunday collections – maybe there weren’t.> My instinct and memory are that there were a few mailboxes in San Francisc…
To throw in one more twist, I read in a postal worker’s forum a couple of comments that indicated the automatic machines (nationwide) didn’t operate o…
Re: further confirmation of the central processing role of Rincon Annex, San Francisco. In a collection of de-classified FBI documents from 1961, rel…
To throw in one more twist, I read in a postal worker’s forum a couple of comments that indicated the automatic machines (nationwide) didn’t operate o…
My thought is if it is established that the machine cancellers didn’t run on Sundays, we can then (hopefully) deduce that the two letters that receive…
I agree that we need to consult with a USPS person who worked at Rincon Annex during that era, or otherwise knew it well. I’m still hopeful we might …