Help With This Covers Rpo Postmark

So I am not sure what this cancel is. Is it a railroad post mark?

I believe it counts as an RPO even though TERM.=terminal, and therefore it is from the PO that handled mail at one the railroad stations. Union Station (still there) wasn't opened until 1939, meaning this went through the Southern Pacific station or the Santa Fe station at that time. The first is closer to the PO box in the nice corner card, but the point of origin might depend more on where the agent's office was, surely at the Santa Fe station. Hopefully someone can confirm it one way or the other.

thanks Hy Brasil! I am also curious as to the city and state, who put that on cover? Is that a stamp that the post office added?

I think the Los Angeles,Cal stamp in the address was applied by the sender.

It looks like a stamping, so by the rail road? It wasn't typed. like the address.

Yes, certainly. If you had (say) 100 to send out at once, it's a good shortcut rather than typing it out over and over. The rubberstamp might have been also used on railroad forms, too.

This rubberstamp was getting worn out; hope the clerk got a new one.

Anyone know what the 3 sets of 4 digits are? The 5592, 5584, & 5419. Doesn't it all tie with the sender and the RPO? Railway company mail going through a railway post office?

1010½ Olive Street

Random Terminal Stuff.

Note: There is also one known as a "Boat RPO"

Stallzer,


Those numbers do not come up searching the text strings in my RPO references.

Given the numbers are in the same type and color as the address on this cover my hunch is it has to do with invoice or shipment numbers that were documented in the content of the communication within the envelope. Do not know of any postal significance for them.