Pelican Postique

After 35 years, I've forgotten what this cancel is all about. Who remembers it?



Thanks.

Looks like the opening date of a new PO. There is a PO in Pelican, LA . . . don't know how long it has been there.

Interesting word "Postique" has every vowel bar the "A"

Can anyone define it for me please?

All I get is same as "postiche"--a sham eg a toupee. etc.

I don't know Postique as a French word, but something in my brain rings a bell that it is the opposite of antique - not sure if I saw that on another planet or what...

I think the Louisiana reference would explain it.

French Acadians from Acadia (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick now), were deported to there when the English took over he province at one point.

Canada stamps, old and modern, commemmorate the Acadians departure, the Church at Grand Pre, Nova Scotia has a statue of Evangaline, from the poem by Longfellow.

Sooooo . . . Postique would be French, from the Acadian perhaps.

Although, Chaucer the English poet used the word postique as you have suggested postiche or toupee.

There is a book Histoire PoStique de Charlemagne (spelled with that capital S in the middle) which, when seen referenced elsewhere, is called Histoire poétique de Charlemagne or the History of Chalemagne Romances.

So, from this meandering, perhaps the Postique word is an Anglicized or Acadian version of poétique or romance or romantic. Good name for a place if it is.

I think that was the time they strapped mail to pelicans...
We don't have homing pigeons down south, the pelicans are
are the closest thing to a flying rat down here.

Oh? I had thought Pelicans were just used for parcel post.

From the American First Day Cover Society:

Postique: A special station or location at a post office where collectors may obtain currently available stamps. Each office usually has its own pictorial cancellation.

And from a website listing USPS terminology:

Philatelic Center — A retail outlet or designated location in a postal lobby that sells select stamp stock of various plate number positions and a complete line of philatelic products for stamp collectors. (Also called Postique, which is a USPS trademark.)

Thank you very much Tomas

Aw, it doesn't mean Romantic or anything like that? Aw shucks. I thought that was so neat. Darn old USPS.

Shucks.

I'm goin' fishin' with Tom here.