Interesting US Auxiliary Markings

Thank you John.
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Nicely solved!
I presumed an acronym, and failed badly,
albeit, I did notice they were all Hawaii covers/cards.

Just found this one going through some covers from that general area.

A "roughly" opened cover.

Receiving stamps;

"Name not in Directory No. 13

And the circular

Name not in Directory service "S" and what looks to be the numeral 6? Not sure the 6 is part of the circular stamp?

Looking at the example Leonard Piszkiewicz shows in "Chicago postal markings and Postal History" the circular stamp is his example NN-5 and shows clerk / station S.

Type written marking. No way of knowing how long it was in the box awaiting pick up but the post card rate became 4 cents on 1-7-1963 and raised to 5 cents 1-7-1968.

What does the "REMOVED J 20" on this cover signify?

Removed often means the addressee has changed addresses. If such person has a forwarding order on file, mail matter can just be grouped and forwarded without the new address being placed on each piece.

Read these forms to find removed:

What would the "J 20" signify?

ID of a postal employee, likely one who hands the mail for that delivery area.

"Delayed by expiration of carrier's time."

Makes it sound like the carrier died.

Carrier's time.....

It is one of the more fun markings (and fairly uncommon). Here is another variant:


The 1902 Postal Laws and Regulations volume requires several pages to cover delivery rules. To excerpt two paragraphs which apply most directly, section 746.1 noting the 8-hour work day:


And Section 748.10 specifically on returned mail. Remember, this is an era when city carriers typically had much shorter routes and covered them several times per day.


Add: here is yet another variation on the wording:

Thank you John.

Very interesting marking! I wonder if it was applied by the carrier (the following day) or by a clerk.

Here is an interesting auxillary marking promoting airmail, July 1918. Perhaps not an auxillary marking in the functional sense, but it is promoting a Post Office service so has some official function I might argue.

It would appear to have been applied in Philadelphia with the receiving backstamp. First the back, then front of the cover.




This is of course, before transatlantic airmail service.

I first thought about posting this is the dormant thread on World War 1 slogans https://goscf.com/t/56611, but am hoping someone may have seen this marking before and be able to shed more light on it.

(Apologies for the cross-posting. This came up in World Postcards - Database Fields, and I thought it belongs in this thread as well).

When you care enough to send a greeting postcard, but not enough to pay for the postage.