Loose Dog - Auxiliary Marking

Here's a pic I snapped of a humorous Auxiliary Marking on a cover. This was shown to me by Ralph Nafziger, who exhibited at the Southeast Show in Atlanta.



Sorry I was unable to capture the entire cover.
Kirk

Nice, have never seen that before. Thank you for posting Kirk.
Don

Oh, thats why my mail is always delayed getting to my house.

That sounds like a good reason to me

That is a great cover Kirk. It would be the ultimate piece in an award winning Dog topical collection!

I wonder if it is a stock handstamp in all post offices.

Dog Warning.

Excellent question, BeeSee. And no one in our small discussion knew the answer. This was part of a "show and tell" session.

A couple people in the room were familiar with the card, like the one shown by Randy above, but everyone was curious about the fact that a rubber stamp had been made just for this purpose.

Kirk

I would doubt it is a rubber stamp used at every PO. I would bet that it was a custom stamp made at the direction of someone in this PO.
Don

Dog markings are quite desirable from any era.

I agree that the rubber stamp was likely available generally to first and second class offices (those more likely to have city delivery), as is does not appear in the list of rubber stamps available to for order in "List of Postal Supplies Furnished to Post Offices of the Third Class" (July 1, 1952 edition), or a similar Fourth Class list dated 1948.

Here is the dog text in the 1913 Postal Laws and Regulations volume:


And from the 1932 PL&R:


And from the 1948 PL&R:


Public service card (front and back) c1990 concerning dogs:




And lastly a slogan machine cancel cropped from the full cover:

That's a great marking. I like that.

It is a fun marking that if real would most likely be something that particular post office had made up locally. On the other hand the fact that this cover is addressed to a member of the Western Cover Society, a philatelic group, makes my antennae quiver a bit as to whether this might be something the avid cover collector who received it could have applied?