Word: postmarks
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LOST IN THE MAIL Since the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed two postal workers in Washington, the city's postmark itself has become endangered. Letters sent from the U.S. capital are increasingly displaying Maryland postmarks as more processing services are outsourced to the burbs...
City in Search of a Postmark...
SIGN OF THE TIMES Some see the vanishing seal as further marginalization of the city; a bill to grant it a vote in Congress failed this fall. D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has asked the D.C. postmaster to help revive the postmark...
...admit it—I’m fudging it a little. After all, there are no towns in the U.S. (nor, likely, the world) that send letters off with the postmark “Kitchen.” I’ve spent the summer making various small trips, none of which was truly postcard-worthy on its own. Yet, as wide a spread as Los Angeles, New York, and my home base of Boston might be, the kitchens I cooked in seemed an appropriately singular subject for my missive...
ANTHRAX BREAK Investigators discovered anthrax on a letter at a Seymour, Conn., residence one mile from the Oxford home of Ottilie Lundgren, the 94-year-old woman who died two weeks ago of anthrax. CLUES The letter bore the same N.J. postmark as did those sent to Senators Daschle and Leahy in Washington, and the letters appear to have moved through the same sorting machine within seconds of one another. NEXT STEP Officials suggest that cross-contamination of mail could explain Lundgren's fatal infection and hope to find similarities between her case and that of the Bronx woman...