Can Someone ID This For Me?

It's Almyra, AR. There are only 2 types listed, neither with a postcode on it. So is this an 841 with a post-cancelled post mark? Or what? Thanks.

Almyra, AR pop. 283. Why? Want to get rid of it? :)

Les, from Arkansas...

No, I've no desire to be rid of it. I'd just like to know why it doesn't look like any of the examples for Almyra in the catalog, thanks. The catalog is supposed to be exhaustive, so this is either too new to be listed or it's not a true precancel.

It is a Local or sometimes referred to as a City precancel. Scott generally does not assign Scott # to Local precancels, only bureau precancels. See for further info about precancels:
http://www.precancels.com/beginner/...lArticle.pdf

When I asked "Why" in my first post, I was questioning why Almyra, AR needed a pre-cancel at all?

It is not the city that needed it but a business in the city that had a large bulk mailing, but it would seem there would have been one or more additional precanceled postage stamps on envelope with this 1 cent stamp to make up for bulk or 3rd class rate.

Jan,
It looks like a #841. To me it looks like someone may have had a stamper with the zip code and decided to make it into something it is not. I have many town and types which don't make since, meaning things added to them just for fun. Someday I may make a page of them and call it "Games People Play". From what I understand, back in the day...some collectors would get ambitious and make their own up when new precancel devices were far and few between. I guess it broke the boredom.

acanalizo-
Your right Scott doesn't give numbers to local precancels, but the Precancel Stamp Society does give each precancel a type number. My guess this issue was used as a "write-in". That is where a collector would write to the postmaster of the PO and ask them to cancel a block of 6 to 8 (the collector would send the Post Master the block) and ask him to cancel it with their precancel device.

This is an 'add on' listed in the Cummings catalog. A standard PSS-841 precancel, then the postal employee Ms. Forest, added the zip code as an add on. from Cummings:
P.O. add-on
Since other cancels on hand included the zip code, the Officer-In-Charge decided that the precancels need it also. As you can see, the Zip-Code was added singly by hand.
Charlotte Forest, the OIC, did these sometime between January 1994 and May 1, 1994. I assume that her replacement did not continue the policy. Kucsan article in May 1994 Forum.

chasa,
Thank you for that update and the story behind it.

Thanks, Oregonian and chasa.

So will it ever be added to TnT as a type? Or is it spoiled / not a true precancel? Always trying to work out what I don't "need" to keep ...