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Re: Mailboxes

Remember the link someone posted regarding letters of espionage? Whilst they might have undertaken such steps the findings might in their view jeopard…

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Did Kim Rossmo address the mailings in the SFPD report? He actually doesn’t, X. Not in terms of the locations where the actual mail drops might have …

6 years ago
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Did Kim Rossmo address the mailings in the SFPD report?

6 years ago
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<Indeed, the very fact that the system of curbside mailing was set up for this purpose goes to confirming the very point I am wanting to make – tha…

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<and a postmark is legally defined to give the date when a piece of mail comes into the possession of the Postal Service. Remember, postmarks are u…

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Excellent work Shaq. So do we conclude that a letter mailed in a box on Mare Island in 1969 to a non-military domestic address would have been process…

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Thanks, these are good finds, but they look like collectors’ first covers, where a hand postmark was requested in person. Clearly there was a post off…

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<The fact that, in at least one case, it can be shown that LE misinterpreted (misread) one of the postmarks as showing – what was it, “JB” instead …

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I’m not seeing that Mare Island was an independent post. (That doesn’t mean it wasn’t!) It’s certainly worth confirming where US mail from the base w…

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I agree re: certainty. This is a good line of inquiry, and i encourage it, but until we have eliminated other possibilities, I think we need to be cau…

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<The Belli letter certainly (one page plus shirt strip) was no different, in this respect, from the Stine letter.> Agreed, excellent point.

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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…

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<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 …

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<The hypothesis is that the hand-cancellation signifies local destination (local to Rincon). Both the Zodiac letters were local to Rincon – just a …

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<Assuming there were such Sunday collections – maybe there weren’t.> My instinct and memory are that there were a few mailboxes in San Francisc…

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