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All a bit too confusing indeed, I don’t wish to bring this subject up but i keep reading here that machine in question is thought to be a Pitney-Bowe…
It’s all so confusing. Okay, this is how I’m going to propose it works, in terms of how the Zip code prefixes were allocated in the first place – ju…
Browsing old posts and came across this post again. I think you are right. I believe that’s exactly what it’s saying: the sectional is under 940 zip. …
Browsing old posts and came across this post again. I think you are right. I believe that’s exactly what it’s saying: the sectional is under 940 zip. …
Your thought is an excellent one, that he likely wanted to minimize the excess handling of the letters containing shirt pieces, and therefore would ha…
The first two of these letters were both cancelled Sunday PM, so whatever the ‘exceptional circumstance’ was in each of these cases, it cannot have in…
Okay. Earlier today I posted a link to an article about the US postal strike of March 1970. As noted, the author of the article was someone who was wo…
I don’t understand this fascination with Rincon. He could have dropped it in any mailbox in the SF area or taken it to any post office. I don’t believ…
Separately for a moment, the Stine letter apparently passed through the automated cancelling system at the sectional center, and of course it too cont…
Also to confirm — was Rincon Annex the sectional center back then — and was a letter mailed in the drop-slot inside Rincon Annex handled the same wa…
I guess one thing to try to confirm is did the sectional center alternately hand-post mail, and if so for what reasons. Would a letter containing a s…
Regardless, I don’t see how any of this information is relevant to the original aim of this thread which was to try and pin point where Zodiac mailed …
Let’s pause here for a moment and consider what Soze is saying. She seems to think that the service codes (1B, 4A, etc.) located on the postmarks are…
For what it’s worth I asked a veteran manager today at my local post office what the procedure would have been in 1969. He said (with convincing cert…
I simply point to the Vallejo Times letter and then back to the correct postage used for Belli letter with the apparent mimicking of lettering. His u…