Scott Catalog And Airmail Cover

Since this is programmatically controlled, I am unsure what 'Gods' you are referring to. He has 'receive email' turned off.
Don

First, the "staff" here AKA moderators with the exception of bobby131313 are all volunteers. We should them time to do what it is they need to do, so of which is quite wonderful for us, perhaps less so for them.

Now as Don pointed out the post count is automatic (I did not know that--thanks Don) so as he noted you need to go back and reset your account regarding emails. Once you do, shoot me a simple test email on the SCF and I will advise you it was received. Normally I get to the email account SCF uses for me about every 24-36 hours.

Yes it is my most important email account, the one for all things philatelic. I still am recovering from email and 24/7/365 phone accessibility PTSD from the retired (approximately 7 years, 26 days, 21 hours, 32 minutes and plus or minus a few seconds just to round off) from day job.

I sent you one last night and another just now.

I just did that. Sorry, I thought I hit that button when I set up the account.

I followed Parcelpostguy's suggestions for searching, and once I found the original Recorded Delivery cover, browsed the sellers past sales.

I discovered one additional Brad Arch cover, with a USPS service I had not seen used previously. The cover is obviously philatelic.



Return Receipt for Merchandise is described in Beecher and Wawrukiewicz in Chapter 51, the final chapter in the book, with no example of usage. It began in 1973 as a experiment, and became a formal service May 21, 1980. It was officially discontinued on July 1, 2020.

Like Tony, I had never seen an example of this service used, philatelic or otherwise.

I have a series of the unused Form 3804 provided for this service, which I will show next.

PS Form 3804, March 1988. The reverse is blank.



PS Form 3804, Mar 1988. Same revision date but Mar. 1988 rather than March. 1988 design. It is unusual to have two revision dates for the same form with different designs. The reverse is blank.



PS Form 3804, July 1999. The bar code added. The reverse has instructional text shown in a later example below.



PS Form 3804, Feb 2000. The bar code added. The reverse has instructional text.



PS Form 3804, July 2002. The bar code added. The reverse has instructional text.



And the reverse...



Edit: The text is the same on each reverse, printing is slightly different.

And after all this effort , I discovered that John Becker has added ten different varieties of this form into the Stamp Smarter Forms database found here:
https://stampsmarter.org/features/N...ms_Home.html

Mike

Well mml1942 that find as philatelic as it is was interesting. I have several of the receipt portion and Return Receipt cards because I actually used the service for mail order returns. I do not have any correctly used wrappers nor labels for that service. Nor is it something I have chased.

I did look for the listing finding it in sold. I also found another with the $1 Olympic stamp which sold shortly after. Both of them sold for $0.01. Shoot, I would have happily gotten them for $0.06 if I needed to raise only one increment.

As to finding you example, mml1942, one cannot search "merchandise" as the title has the word spelled, "merchandisie" but the second one I found was spelled correctly.

As to jmz5723, yes I can confirm you fixed your email problem and I have received and replied to three messages.

Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything on my new email. Am I supposed to get some kind of notification on this site that I have an email from a member?

Check spam filter.

Edit: Also mail tabs for Promotions and Social.

Edit #2: I just sent a test email via SCF messaging. Look for it, everywhere it will be somewhere. My replies will just go to your (and wife's) email like a "normal" message but perhaps not into your general mail box until you train your email to do so.

I found out its not my email that needs "trained" but me. I failed to read the fine print closely once again. I apologize to everyone who has had to suffer patiently through all of this.

Edit: Maybe we can finally get back to posting more pretty pictures with descriptions.

Here is on suitable for the season an it was the last season before Santa could begin using Parcel Post.



Now on to subjects actually in this thread one of which I now quote.





Below are the three pages from a 1929 USPOD Philatelic order sheet. Note the listing for the 75 cent PP stamp (now Q-11) at the top left of image 3 below. Also notice the USPOD was using Scott (1927) numbers to identify the stamps being sold.


Due to limits on uploaded illustration size, I had to break the first sheet into two parts---

And--


Has the Q-11 --


And to stay with the military flavor of some of this thread --

Here is one example that was discussed earlier in the thread. This item closed today on ebay:






Also here are some currently offered registered items similar to what mml1942 posted. These come from a different seller.(Both have appropriate backstamps but I chose to not copy that side.)



STAMPS US REGISTERED MAIL COLUMBUS VOYAGE MULTI FRANKED BACKSTAMPS COVEReBay item number:404724942951



US COVER REGISTERED MAIL COLUMBUS VOYAGE MULTI FRANKED BACKSTAMPSeBay item number:395111958015