Some Covers That Had To Chase Their Recipients US / World

This cover only had to go from Montreal to Cambridge, VT, but the sender forgot (or thought it was obvious) to put the state in the address. The postmarks I can read are ON THE FRONT: Montreal, Canada 23 Oct 1939, Cambridge, OH 1939, Cambridge, NY 7 Nov 193(9), Insufficient Address stamp, not on RT #1, not on RT #2, Try MASS (penciled out), RETOUR. ON THE BACK: Cambridge, MD 21 Nov 1939, Cambridge, MA 23 Oct 1939, Washington, DC 24 Nov 1939, Another Cambridge, MA 8 Nov 1939, Cambridge, NY 28 Oct 1939, Cambridge ?, 10 Nov (1939) and a Dead Letter Stamp 27 No 1939. There is also one more postmark under the Dead Letter Office stamp, that is date 11 Nov 1939. The letter eventually made it somehow (maybe hand carried after being picked up at the dead letter office), but it was a family envelope, so I know it got where it was supposed to. Just thought is was neat.

A nice piece with a lot of travel history. Looks like the sender got his 3 cents (Canadian) money's worth in postage. According to the postmarks, it took more than a month for this go-around. It appears to me that the piece was finally returned to Montreal's Dead Letter Office and probably returned to sender.

If you didn't mention it in your original post, I still would never have guessed Cambridge, VT as its intended destination.

Nice cover Jeff

One also has to take into consideration that Canada was at war for approximately 2 months + or -, and were were in mobilization mode. It is possible, and this is only a suggestion, that the post office lost some of the younger men going off overseas and the work was left for fewer people to fill the gaps and they were in the process of 'inspecting' the mails. Let's face it, whether a cover is shown as censored or not, they were inspected in a lot of cases because of the war and there may have been a hidden motive to send the letter back to Canada - who knows??.

I have heard stories of covers being sent to the address years after it was sent but this was not the case for most of them.

Just a theory - maybe not a good one :o(

Chimo

Bujutsu

Never even thought on those lines - thanks all!

That is amazing! It went around the states in 30 days. Heck even with a full address it can take awhile for a letter to arrive in more modern times.

Here's another chaser, only not so bad, just had to skip from Brookline, to Hyannis, MA not too far. Kind of a stark, dreary and compellingly beautiful postcard. The card is in black and white.

Nice card Jeff

Some of those view cards showing the different fjords of Scandinavia are quite spectacular.

Chimo

Bujutsu

thanks chimo, this one is nice it is just very stark black and white