Modern Hobby Local Post Thread

Interesting that the person called his/her local post TNT. There is a TNT private courier service in Europe which is a part of a Dutch corporation.

The guy who mailed the cover and designed the cancel is named Ted Tompkins, so my guess is that T.N.T. are his initials.

Here is a nice cover from Czyl's Penny Post from 1975:




John
River of the Monks Local Post

I picked up two nice local post covers over the weekend that I thought I'd share here. Both also had complimenting USPS cancellations. I think they may have forgotten to affix an actual postage stamp to the Oregon cover -- it looks like an afterthought.

I found one more local post, tucked away. I wonder if anyone knows: did these modern local posts actually act as mail carriers in some capacity? It would seem that the two I posted previously did move mail, but this one I'm not so sure.

Howard Local Post
http://zenius.kalnieciai.lt/america...usa/usa.html

The Howard Local Post was started in 1972 by Howard Du Bose of Durham, N.C. The Sherlock Holmes Old Radio issue was #42 in the series, issued on May 18, 1976, influenced by the Sherlock Holmes radio show (Mr. Du Bose was a professional radio engineer in the early '70s). There were 750 stamps printed, in 30 sheets of 25, and 150 First Day covers.
Howard says "I combined my interest in collecting stamps, reading mystery novels (I started in Viet Nam with Nero Wolfe), and working in radio. I did several radio stamps. I only did stamps about what I was interested in. I had a total of 55 issues, some of which are still for sale! "

https://www.trussel.com/detfic/sholmes.htm#Howard

Note: 3 on eBay, all postally used
Perhaps labels only used as cartoons.

That makes sense, since the Green Hornet started as a radio series.

I found two more! These were mailed to me back in my early days of collecting. I'm sure they were freebies, because that was about my budget back then.

Know the "Pineapple Post" well !

I'll dig up some scans

Australian Cinderella Catalogue Mr.Bill Hornadge


SCF member Philatarium (Dave)

FMF Local Post
Fort Meyers Florida
https://sossi.org/local/fmf.htm

Thanks for all the background on these, Rod!