The streets have names rather than numbers, and all the trees just look like trees to me.Bethlehem does a brisk Christmas business, as you can imagine, and the post office is bustling: people come from all over southern New England to send Christmas cards with a Bethlehem postmark.
At the same time, a number of overseas military ballots had been excluded because they lacked a postmark (the exact number depends on whom you talk to: Republicans say around 1,000; Democrats say 200).
But she was also intrigued by the rhino stamp, barely a kiss of a postmark, and her address in caps.
These have included bestowing the Walk of Fame stars, securing Hollywood a special postmark, and, in recent weeks, lobbying (unsuccessfully) to have the Hollywood sign painted red, white, and blue.
Beneath the clock face of the local postmark her handwriting was big but careful, some curlicuing in the "g"s and "f"s.
As I said, he was fascinated with natural disasters, and in his collection he had a letter that had survived the explosion of Krakatoa in 1883, a Dutch postmark placed upon a letter written just before and carried off on a steamer.
The other was mailed in N.Y. and its postmark bears the message "Aliens Must Report Their Addresses During January".
He produced a table showing the postmark (most often Brooklyn 11256, with occasional forays into Queens and Manhattan), the ink used, and the form of address.
One was mailed from Venice, and its postmark includes this salutation from the Italian post office: "Buon Natale, Buon Anno".
Then he notices its foreign stamp and postmark.
