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Re: Mailboxes

<Accordingly, there is then no reason to suppose that the system of allocation would require the actual physical SCF to be located somewhere that w…

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Shaq, it’s an important focal point. I could be wrong but I’m remembering Rincon was the go-to post office in San Francisco when you needed a timely …

6 years ago
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Re: Mailboxes

This is very good, there’s much to process here. Separately for a moment, the Stine letter apparently passed through the automated cancelling system …

6 years ago
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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 …

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One more thought. It is highly doubtful that the Zodiac, even on a Monday, if the Sunday hand post-mark-tool dates happened to be wrong, would have h…

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<Bus Bomb letter has a SFC article about it on the 12th of November indicating the 11th.> Thanks Simplicity. If the letter arrived on Tuesday t…

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<She seems to think that the service codes (1B, 4A, etc.) located on the postmarks are error codes that indicate which head and die needs servicing…

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Do we know when the 3 letters in question were delivered to their recipients?

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Here is another possible wrinkle to consider. Someone may have set the wrong date on the hand-postmark tool. I believe the dates are set manually by…

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I know what you’re saying, but to me the guy’s a psychopath so I’m not giving him credit for logic.

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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…

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<But isn’t this reasoning about what might reject and what not a little fine-lined? The ‘Bus Bomb’ letter was only one page more, and a small swatc…

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<That said, how would you get around the fact that – as Zodiac would have known – the rates for first class (letter) mail actually have no correlat…

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

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<The first is from Mare Island, but likely (from appearance) a civilian, rather than a military, mailing:> So it appears Mare Island had its ow…

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