Mother's Day 2012 Spray On Cancels

Sloppy as it may be, I just received a piece of mail today dated 25 May 2012 with a Boston, MA 020 slogan postmark with a Mother's Day theme:



I think the bottom of the postmark reads something like "Say it with a card..." The rest is illegible. Does anyone know what the entire slogan caption is meant to read?

Have others received a great deal of mail with a Mother's Day postmark? How long is the USPS going to use these spray on cancels now that Mother's Day has long passed on the calendar?

I also find it interesting that the Greeting Card Association has made an announcement that there are (were) as many as three different Mother's Day-themed slogan postmarks being used earlier this month. Unfortunately, their news release is not dated, nor did they show examples of the different postmarks:

http://www.greetingcard.org/Aboutth...stmarks.aspx

I find it especially frustrating that organizations such as the Greeting Card Association can get this kind of information in advance from the USPS but we stamp collectors have no way to know about it unless we get it through the "back door" either from some other organization's news release or from collectors themselves.

Hi, We used something similar to spray codes and contents on boxes. The box traveled thru a conveyor into the spray head area and it sprayed it on as it went thru. We got rid of 2 job positions using this equipment, saved money. Terrible enough as you can see, they don't care if you can read it or not. Probably saved some money by having a machine do it versus a person. We still had to adjust the head if the marking was not readable. But I don't think they monitored that. Probably another cost cutting idea for U.S.P.S. Mothers deserve better ...Keith

Nice cancel, looks like a tattoo from days gone by.

Hi wt1,

The last time I visited my "source" for recent USA used stamps. I came across some of these Heart cancels on cover.
I have three different varieties. The hearts look the same on the 3 varieties, the slogan or lack thereof seems to be the difference.

One version has no slogan
One version has larger size script - all I can make out is "Sending......."
One version has smaller size script - all I can make out is " Say it with a .............."

I saved all three for you if you want them. Just let me know...

Dave N.
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Thanks for the info. I have finally got hold of the text that all three of these Mother's Day postmarks are supposed to read ... it's just a shame that the spray-on cancels put into use don't look anything like this intended artwork:

Could the greeting card industry be subsidizing the USPS like other businesses are sponsoring stadiums? Silly question--- Tha government would never agree to something that makes that much sense.

Dear Oldtri,







That is a good suggestion and one we are going to take you up on. I have answered you because I have family in Norfolk, I bet it was popular with the air force because it would provide great runways.
Muriel.