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FDC With Change Of Address Sticker

 
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Posted 06/02/2017   12:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add BKing to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
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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Posted 06/02/2017   2:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hy-brasil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Anybody know what the "F" is for on the label?
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Posted 06/02/2017   2:48 pm  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
"Forward"?
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Posted 06/02/2017   3:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cjpalermo1964 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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Posted 06/02/2017   4:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Dazzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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Posted 06/02/2017   6:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hy-brasil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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Posted 06/03/2017   12:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Leejb1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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Posted 07/31/2017   8:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I did not know these were around in the 1970-s. By the 1980's they were applied by a machine.
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