Sept from Jacqueline - Smithsonian Postal Museum

 

I had an email exchange with Jacqueline - tracking down missing mail from the Dec exchange and I asked her if she does one design for each moth or something different for each person. She kindly sent me the photo she took of these September envelopes. I already posted Charlotte's Web and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

The whole group is very fun.

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Chuck sent me the link to the Smithsonian Postal Museum. I had been to their site a few years ago and then forgot about it. It's been fun to revisit it and find a ton of new information. 

The first fun item - was when I clicked on the Dead Letter Album. While scrolling through interesting mail that ended up in the museum, I found this one which was addressed to someone in Perry, Iowa which is one of my favorite small towns that is not too far from DSM. 

For 6-cents the USPS would transport a letter from Hawaii to Perry, Iowa and that's all they needed - a name/city/state.

Here's the caption:

Private John R. Rion inadvertently left a mark on postal history by mailing an envelope from Honolulu, Hawaii, postmarked on December 7, 1941, the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. 

On December 6, 1941, Rion dropped an oversize envelope at the Honolulu post office, destined for a friend back home in Perry, Iowa with whom Rion owned a barber shop. The next morning, the Honolulu post office cancelled Rion’s envelope at 8 a.m., the exact time that Japanese torpedo planes struck nearby Pearl Harbor and the unprepared U.S. Navy battleship force. 

Here is a LINK to the Smithsonian Postal Museum website Its to the Dead Letter Album - not the home page - which is probably where you need to go if you feel like surfing.