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shaqmeister
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Re: Mailboxes

Regarding the Belli letter, It’s interesting that this is the first instance where he uses correct postage. When coupled with the belief that he mimic…

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Re: Mailboxes

Doubtful the Little List letter would have gotten rejected by a Pitney Bowles machine, if it was strictly an envelope with 5 pages inside. Agree that…

5 years ago
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Re: Mailboxes

Regarding the Belli letter, It’s interesting that this is the first instance where he uses correct postage. When coupled with the belief that he mimic…

5 years ago
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Re: RCC Archives Research Report

Hi, would it be possible to get a copy of the files ithinkiknow sent me a copy when he first received them but unfortunately it was not received by me…

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Re: Mailboxes

I just can’t see a definitive answer being made with any of these letters. I hope there is more empirical information to be found and discussed but ul…

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Re: Mailboxes

I think the bus bomb letter is most interesting, a hand stamped letter on Sunday 9 of November 69, maybe a very small not so busy post office in SF bu…

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Re: Mailboxes

I believe you are right on target. Plenty to ponder here. And, don’t you think it’s ironic that we’d put all that hope into thinking the coded postma…

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Re: Mailboxes

<So, no 2-digit code at least means not processed at the SCF.> Continued excellent work! Regarding the other three letters, I guess one thing …

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Re: Mailboxes

And (lol, sorry to keep pushing it) just one more important observation about the three ‘potentially’ hand-stamped letters. Firstly, the machine-stam…

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Re: Mailboxes

However, it states that: Two parallel bars (trail bars) to the left of the dater characterized the Mark-II canceller. I’m not seeing those trailer ba…

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Re: Mailboxes

In re-reading the statements from the two experts, they essentially agree that the two-digit codes denoted the machine or head, plus the die. So they…

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Re: Mailboxes

Just to aid comparison of the two forms of postmark that we have discovered, here are two (one of each) from Zodiac mailings. The one on the lef…

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Re: Mailboxes

Similarly the USPS policy would be not to deliver a letter without a zone or zip code in the address, but in the case of Z those got delivered as well…

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Re: Mailboxes

I’m guessing the Belli letter, for one, would have required more than 6 cents postage, due to the weight. The Little List letter might have as well. …

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Re: Mailboxes

One other observation (and, apologies for blitz-posting but I’m a bit excited ). The first two of the three letters that were apparently hand cancell…

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