Please Help Me Identify

I do not recognize the P L on this precancel - perhaps someone has seen it before and can identify it for me? Much thanks!

Cokato, MN PSS# 701 PSS CV. .25c

Yes Oregonian - I got that far. I appreciate your reply, but it is the "P L" overprint that I am trying to identify. Much thanks!

Could be part of a box cancel. The scott cat. is #804. Sorry I can't be of more help. Someone will know on here though!

Hello, welcome!

The 'P L' looks to me like part of a cancellation of another sort, like I_Love_Stamps said. Could also be a received type of stamping from a company of some sort? Lots of other options I would imagine.

Not part of the precancel itself.

You're seeing just part of an informational handstamp.

P.L.& R. xxxxx
Postal Laws and Regulations, etc., with a specific number.

Thanks all for the warm welcome! I think Doug may be right (although there are no periods after the P & L)it seems the most logical answer!

From Google:

Acronym Definition
PL&R Postal Laws and Regulations

There are hundreds of possible numbers following PL&R, all pertaining to mail handling procedures and policies, etc. A bureaucrat's paradise.

While PL&R maybe right, I'm not totally convinced only because the letters "P" and "L" on the example shown are spread out too far apart. If this were PL&R the letters would be closer together. With so much space apart, it would take an awfully large rubber stamp to print the PL&R designation and since size is money (in rubber stamps) it would behoove anyone who was using such a rubber stamp to have it the smallest size possible. Just my two cents.

As suggested by others, it could also be part of a Received stamp that some company used on the outer envelope with only a couple of letters appearing on the stamp shown.

Another idea: Could "P L" relate to an abbreviation for a company or perhaps even "Public Library"? Remember, by the time the stamp shown was issued, there was a requirement that stamps have the initials of the company and date on them. Although the requirement wasn't mandated for denominations below 6 cents, some companies initialed all of their stamps anyway as a means of security and even advertising. So that could be another remote possibility.

Without more information or other examples in which to study, you'll probably never know for sure, as it's all just best guesses at this point.

thanks wt1! those "guesses" are what makes our hobby so much fun!!

Wonder if it is part of M P L S, which would be Minneapolis....? just a thought.

Good thought, muzzypat. Cokato is a small town about 35 miles west of Minneapolis.