FDC With Change Of Address Sticker

A FDC I just purchased - you have to wonder which postal clerk gets the "Employee of the Month" award for putting the change of address sticker on it. Just business as usual at the post office, I guess.


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Anybody know what the "F" is for on the label?

"Forward"?

I'm not sure it's an official label. It could have been typed up and stuck on by whomever was living at 2363 Camden, Houston at the time and didn't want Mr. Dittman's mail.

I'm going to agree with cjpalermo1964. I've seen plenty of forward and undeliverable stickers on mail. It looks like it was typed on a typewriter and I'm not sure if the post office would have had the time to have someone type up a sticker each time one was needed. I also would go with F to mean forward. If it was computer generated, it most likely would have been a dot matrix printer and that does not look dot matrix.

Considering the bad handwriting on some forwarded letters, it still might be a clerk's or nixie's handiwork. It wasn't hit with a pointing finger handstamp, either. But that would confuse the attacking British.

The FDC is from 1975, some of the first forwarding stickers were typed on typewriters. They would put together 10 labels per change of address and they were given to the letter carrier. When the carrier was in need of more labels he would notify the clerk assigned to type the labels. This was before the Postal Service started to use computers.

I did not know these were around in the 1970-s. By the 1980's they were applied by a machine.