Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

September 8 1932, St Augustine FL to Minneapolis MN, Commemorating the 367th Anniversary of St Augustine

Nice cover! Isn't it overpaid by 3c (air mail 8c for first ounce and 10c special delivery charge)?

It is a nice cover! Actually, I find it most interesting to see a backstamp for the Jacksonville and Key West RPO dated September 8, 1932. I suppose the marking was due to the short northbound trip from St. Augustine to Jacksonville, Florida, where the mail would have continued onto its route further north.

It is interesting to note that the Jacksonville and Key West RPO ceased on September 2, 1935, when the Labor Day Hurricane permanently destroyed the "overseas railway".

A couple September 9 Rural Free Delivery.

September 9 1947, Meeteetse WY to Minneapolis MN, COD cancelled meter







How does a letter leave Wyoming on the 9th and arrive in Minnesota on the 7th?

Edit: Duh! Minneapolis to Meeteetse

That is what makes the delivery so special!

Now, seriously, here are two less interesting first day covers for the September 9, 1983 U.S. Civil Service issue (Scott 2053).

Note the prominence of the Postman in the ArtCraft cachet.

Back to the cover addressed to Meeteetse, Wyoming, I don't recall ever seeing a Pitney Bowes Postage Meter showing a postage payment without a city/state or date included in the indicia. I wonder if it was an experimental or a newly installed postage meter at the originating Post Office in Minneapolis?

Why would they feel the need to cancel it? It looks hand cancelled.

The double-oval cancel is a hand cancel, and I have examples using that same device on both postage meters and stamps. I think it has to do with the fact that it is Registered Mail when the double oval (mute) hand cancel was used.

I posted this cover last year but it is one of my favorites so I hope nobody minds my showing it again. It was mailed from Lancaster, PA on September 10th to the Honorable Edward McPherson. The story behind the addressee is at https://goscf.com/t/16066#16066

Very cool! Fits well with the political season too!

September 11th, 1998, Catalonia's National Day: A postcard cinderella, a cinderella, a cinderella postmark, a stamp and a postmark. All in a piece!

And attractive too... what more could one ask?

September 11 1882, West Townsend MA to Boston MA

An event cover cancelled September 11, 1982: