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Topic: Space Cover 388: STS-115 Launch
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Apollo-Soyuz
Member Posts: 1205
From: Shady Side, Md
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 10-20-2016 08:55 AM
   
Space Cover of the Week, Week 388, October 23, 2016 Space Cover of the Week 388: STS-115 LaunchThis week's cover commemorates the launch of STS-115 on Sept. 9, 2016. As you can see, a mistake was made when these covers were serviced. Covers were cancelled with the wrong month in the hand cancel. Sometimes the clerks servicing our covers do not check the hand cancels before using them. This does not happen too often. Ken Havekotte inquired and found out many crew-signed covers were cancelled in this manner. To salvage the covers, the KSC post office agreed to put the correct date of launch on the covers. ------------------
John Macco
Space Unit #1457 |
NAAmodel#240
Member Posts: 312
From: Boston, Mass.
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 10-20-2016 09:13 AM
John, great cover. Can you tell us whether the postmark is applied on KSC property or at the Orlando post office? |
Apollo-Soyuz
Member Posts: 1205
From: Shady Side, Md
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 10-20-2016 01:03 PM
I believe it was at the Orlando post office. Ken Havekotte can tell us definitely where the cancel was applied. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2913
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 10-21-2016 03:02 PM
Not at the Orlando P.O. facility near the international airport, but from the Titusville-KSC branch postal station. The smaller bullseye cancel device had been used as a supplement or additional postal hand cancel strike throughout the 1990's and 2000's. | |
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