Letters, Round One
Have you noticed the new sprayed-on USPS postmarks? They have “killer bars” (or worse, the United Way obliterator) and two or three lines of text comprising location and time of processing? Most stamp collectors hate them. I dislike them because I specialize in socked-on-the-nose cancellations (cancellations where a circular date stamp is perfectly centered on a stamp) because … there is no circular date stamp! So I wrote to the USPS Director of Stamp Services about the issue, and this is what I got back:
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See? Nice, customized, respectful, and personal, from a prominent person. I’m sure I would have gotten a personal letter from Arsène Wenger if he had happened to be in the office:
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