Show Any New "USPS" Spray Cancellations You Find

Here is a new USPS spray-on cancel used in my area of the USA, Des Moines, Iowa, that I received in the mail recently showing a new-style postal vehicle. The details are pretty good considering the speeds of the machine this letter ran on. The wording says: "USPS Vehicle Awareness."

The spray technology has come a long way since the days I worked on check sorters for Unisys.

Linus

That's a pretty nice cancel, Linus, and certainly the first time I've seen it.
The four wave shaped killers trailing the outline of the vehicle suggest it's speeding down the highway or perhaps through the air like a space shuttle.

I had a March 14 dated example of this marking from Cleveland in my mail today.

Linus,
The sprays I have seen all have an additional line of text above the truck. Did yours miss the envelope or is it an artefact of trimming or digital cropping?
Here are some others:
Indianapolis, 5L

Indianapolis, 7L

Northern Virginia, 4L

Milwaukee, 4L


I would encourage everyone to save these as entire covers and not cut them down, which greatly reduces their value/collectibility as postal history.

John -

That is very interesting! Des Moines is not using the additional line of text as you show on your example. My example in the OP from machine 3L is the same as a full cover I saved from machine 2L shown below. Did both miss the top part of the spray cancel, or was it programmed without that extra text?

Would anybody else like to share examples of this spray cancel from your area?

Linus

This Des Moines cover includes a partial upper line of text.

USPS Des Moines has hardware problems. Thanks for the examples Bluejay2.

Cincinnati, 6L

This Waterloo, Iowa cancelation utilizes a smaller and less detailed depiction of the postal vehicle.