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Topic: Closure of Kennedy Space Center post office
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OLDIE
Member Posts: 362
From: Portsmouth, England
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 09-07-2023 12:07 PM
  
I've just received info from one of my cover suppliers (aquilared) that the Kennedy Space Center Post Office is closing on 15th Sept. Does anyone know if they are proposing to use a "last day of use" postmark and/or cover? |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3717
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-07-2023 12:55 PM
The last day closing of KSCPO is not on Sept. 15, but rather, later in the month and most likely not before Sept 29th. But, please keep in mind, any date at this time is not confirmed. Once a definite closing date has been decided on, I will post that information here. If you are mailing envelope covers for last day cancel requests, the good folks at KSCPO would like to have those mailed-in requests by the 15th. There are no special postmark cancels available, just the standard two hand cancel devices, will be in use. My firm with CSM Enterprises, however, will be producing cachet covers for the last day along with using a few different private rubber stamp cachet inkers for the final day closure. |
OLDIE
Member Posts: 362
From: Portsmouth, England
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 09-07-2023 02:41 PM
Thanks Ken. I knew you'd have some info. Much appreciated. |
Axman
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From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 09-09-2023 06:37 AM
I must ask the obvious question: Why?Why close the Kennedy Space Centre post office? |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1850
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-10-2023 09:35 AM
No need for it. Correspondence no longer travels by snail mail. Packages are handle by shipping and receiving and usually are done by carriers other than the USPS. Inter "company" mail is even seldom used. |
Axman
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From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 09-10-2023 09:59 AM
I'm not sure you are correct. In the UK alone, last year Royal Mail handled over 8 billion pieces of mail. Even if you remove the slightly disparaging remarks of snail mail that figure still adds up to a considerable volume of business.And we are talking about the Post Office that set a World Record which will never be beaten for processing the First Man on the Moon FDCs. If KSC Post Office is 'not needed' then we kiss goodbye to surface mail full stop. There must be another reason for this closure other than that. |
yeknom-ecaps
Member Posts: 847
From: Northville MI USA
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 09-10-2023 10:20 AM
Likely a financial decision based on amount of sales/services provided to customers at the post office (not mail in requests).USPS is a business and has closed a number of post offices around the country doing low volume to cut costs. Note that the post office at Stennis Space Center was closed to several years ago assuming for similar reasons. As the KSC PO was servicing employees at KSC and on a part-time basis the volume of "walk-in" requests was low. |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1850
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-10-2023 11:17 AM
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Originally posted by Axman:
I'm not sure you are correct.
I am sure I am correct. I am a KSC NASA employee and my fellow workers and I have little use for snail mail in the process of carrying out our duties. All formal communications is done by email. Along with mail, there is little need for secretaries/administrative assistants. We have four for 150 people our program office. There isn't much paper to push anymore. Also, we have little need for landline phones at our desks. The only time I get "mail" is if it is a birthday card from the center director but that is internal and not USPS. The few other things I got from outside would be junk mail. As far as I am concerned, we can kiss goodbye to snail mail. Anything I get that is physical is packages. Even credit cards don't come in the mail anymore. I rather get physical magazines as soft copies. Much like I get documents at work. Most of the piece of mail the USPS handles is junk or packages. |
Axman
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From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 09-12-2023 10:49 AM
I don't disagree with a single word of what you say. But, and I think it is a big but... You are talking about just one aspect of the KSC post office — the wider employees at KSC and the modern working practices surrounding mail — which as you point out is totally unnecessary to complete your tasks. From my perspective of a collector, there is still a need for "snail mail." A "soft copy" of a launch event just does not cut the mustard. Therefore, I take it, collectors, and visitors wanting to preserve a souvenir of their visit, are a dying breed. If collectors, visitors and supplementary interested parties have dried up on that vast a scale, then KSC may be in for many more job losses than just at the post office. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 51321
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-12-2023 11:17 AM
Visitation to Kennedy Space Center is at an all-time high and those wanting a souvenir, buy them at the gift shop. The problem is philatelic covers are no longer promoted or offered as a souvenir.It used to be (as recent as the space shuttle program) that you could buy a cacheted cover at either the gift shop or at the mobile shop that visited the press and launch viewing sites, address and stamp it, and then drop it back at the shop or stand for it to be mailed through the Kennedy Space Center post office. That appears to no longer be the case. Covers are no longer offered and the collection bins are gone. Today's visitors (and the press corps) don't know about covers. It is primarily the collectors who are off-site who are still sending in for cancels and that number pales in comparison to the number of people who show up for launches. If there was a large enough demand for a philatelic service at Kennedy Space Center, then the USPS would likely maintain an office (of some type). But as the constant need is no longer there, they can suffice by directing mail through other local post offices and perhaps pop-up stations on special occasions (such as, maybe, the Artemis II launch). |
KenDavis
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From: W.Sussex United Kingdom
Registered: May 2003
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posted 09-12-2023 11:51 AM
Excuse what might be an odd question from the UK, but could souvenir items still be posted from other sites I.e. Cape Canaveral or Titusville? A KSC postmark is of course desirable, but a related location would, I think, still be fine if that was nearest location to the launch |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1850
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-12-2023 12:50 PM
Ken is looking into this. quote:
Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
...then the USPS would likely maintain an office (of some type).
It wasn't a USPS post office but a contractor operated post office. Similar to what was done in some hardware, five & dime or pharmacies in days of old.This was center paying for a contractor to run a post office that was open part time to the "public." Now it only will have a mail room like any other large organization. |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1850
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-12-2023 01:01 PM
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Originally posted by Axman:
But, and I think it is a big but... You are talking about just one aspect of the KSC post office...
I was talking about the main aspect of the KSC post office and the original reason it existed. Cover cancellation was an afterthought and not worth the cost or the little PR it brings. There are many better ways to "preserve" a souvenir (photos, patches, visitor guide, etc) of their visit. I visited many times before working here since the 70's and a postal cancellation never entered my mind as a trip memo. |
onesmallstep
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From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 09-12-2023 02:59 PM
I too as a longtime space philatelist will mourn the 'passing' of the KSC P.O. and its desirable cancellations, as they were the closest to Merritt Island, site of historic Launch Pads like 34 (Apollo 7) and of course 39A and B (Apollo through SpaceX Crew Dragon). You can still get cancels from Cape Canaveral (technically, for launches from the 'Air Force' side, like the upcoming Boeing Starliner); Patrick Space Force Sta. (ex-AFB); and Titusville. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 51321
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-12-2023 04:06 PM
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Originally posted by Jim Behling:
It wasn't a USPS post office but a contractor operated post office.
I see that now. I thought the USPS had taken over operations when the PO moved to the new headquarters building, but I can't find where I saw or what led me to think that. Per Linn's Stamp News, the Kennedy Space Center Post Office has been operated since 2013 by Post Masters Mail and Print Services, a part of the Anthony Wayne Rehabilitation Center, a nonprofit company that [provides] job opportunities for people with disabilities, including service-disabled veterans. Additional details from Linn's: The center reports that philatelic requests will be processed at Titusville, Fla. Requests should be sent to: Titusville PO, Attn: Supervisor, 2503 S. Washington Ave., Titusville FL 32780. Submitted covers will receive a Titusville postmark. ...In response to a query from Linn's Stamp News, Jim McKean, senior media relations representative for the USPS, said a Kennedy Space Center postmark will not be available through the Postal Service's Stamp Fulfillment Service Center in Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City, Kennedy Space Center and Titusville postal representatives I contacted all agree that the Kennedy Space Center postmark will disappear with the closing of that contract station. |
rvk
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From: Highlands Ranch, CO USA
Registered: Jul 2020
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posted 09-12-2023 04:51 PM
I’m a bit confused here. It is my understanding that the post office for Kennedy Space Center is a sub-station located in Orlando, FL 32815 and is not located on Merritt Island, FL. Postmarks from any post office on or near Merritt Island would be a lot closer to the NASA launch sites than Orlando. Linn's Stamp News has an article on the USPO closure on their website. |
randyc
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From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 09-12-2023 05:13 PM
As a collector of covers with 'Official NASA Cachets' from KSC for over 55 years I think it's too bad that NASA, or someone else on their behalf, didn't produce a rubber stamp that looked the same as the one used when the post office opened on July 1, 1965 but instead of 'First Day Postal Service' in the cachet it would have 'Last Day Postal Service'. I'm sure making a couple of these rubber stamps wouldn't have cost much and it would be a tribute to the 58 years that the post office has operated. |
yeknom-ecaps
Member Posts: 847
From: Northville MI USA
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 09-12-2023 09:33 PM
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Originally posted by rvk:
...located in Orlando, FL 32815.
The KSC Post Office is located in the M7-301 Headquarters Building Room 1443 at Kennedy Space Center.Previous topics on KSC post office — including picture of Room 1443 — are here and here. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3717
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-13-2023 07:59 AM
After getting nearly a dozen emails and phone calls (and from Robert P.), hopefully, this week I am planning to write a posting that can answer a lot of the questions raised about the closing of the KSPO this month. I would also like to address what postal stations would be available and appropriate to use for KSC space events in the future. And finally, I would like to do a final posting of those last covers that would receive KSC postal cancels before they can no longer be processed here at the space center itself. |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1850
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-13-2023 01:33 PM
There are some wrong items in that article. The closest USPS office to KSC is the Merritt Island station on Crockett Rd. It is 2.4 miles to the KSC boundary just north of the barge canal on Merritt Island proper. The Titusville office is 2.5 miles to the nearest KSC land mass. Plus Merritt Island is more accurate since KSC is on Merritt Island. However, Cape Canaveral post office is just over a mile from CCSFS. For historical reasons (over 8000 launches from the Cape vs less than 200 from KSC) and the name, I would go with Cape Canaveral PO. |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1850
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-13-2023 01:34 PM
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Originally posted by rvk:
It is my understanding that the post office for Kennedy Space Center is a sub-station located in Orlando, FL 32815
It was sent to and from there to the onsite PO. |
Ken Havekotte
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From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-13-2023 01:48 PM
I wasn't planning to get into this type of discussion at the moment since my posting has not been made yet, however, Jim is correct and did already address some of the issues that I would like to comment on. I did have a phone conversation with Robert P. the other day about the Merritt Island Post Office and I will be having more information about their possibility of processing future space covers, but nothing has been discussed at this time. In my opinion, I would agree with Jim and David in using CCPO as a main postal cancel station for future KSC events, but also, I would agree with Merritt Island being the geographic location of KSC as the barrier island includes nearly 90,000 acres of government owned property that has become the NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center. As a side note, some veteran space cover collectors and enthusiasts may recall veteran news reporter and anchorman Walter Cronkite of CBS News reporting "live from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida," He didn't say Cape Canaveral, Titusville, nor anywhere else. But I would also accept Patrick Space Force Base as another acceptable post office location. Why Patrick, because it's the home of Space Launch Delta 45 (formerly the 45th Space Wing since 2021) that operates a vast network of radar, telemetry, communications instrumentation support, and administrative base-range station headquarters for launches. In addition, the 920th Rescue Wing operates aircraft flights out of Patrick for crewed launch emergency and rescue support along with monitoring launch weather and some crew landing conditions by the 45th Weather Squadron. As pointed out earlier, the Titusville Post Office is on U.S. Route 1 along the Indian River overlooking KSC-NASA grounds with the big VAB and Launch Complex 39 visible. It's a great public liftoff viewing site for a SLS/Artemis, Crew Dragon, and other SpaceX Falcon 9 and Heavy launch vehicle payloads from Launch Complex 39 and is close to KSC property as Merritt Island is. In addition, there are a few major aerospace companies located in Titusville that are a part of the NASA and DOD space team, such as Boeing's Space and Launch Division and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. How about Cocoa Beach and West Palm Beach in Florida? Those two cities are Commercial Crew Program providers and suppliers for NASA, however, their association with KSC is rather limited, even though there are a scattered number of smaller aerospace firms located in Cocoa Beach and the town of Cape Canaveral. But in Cocoa, unknown to most, there is a big SpaceX Rocket Assembly Site close to the Beachline. Other Space Coast area post offices such as Satellite Beach, Rockledge, Port Saint John, and Mims would not qualify in my opinion. Melbourne, though, south of the Patrick Space Force Base, is the home to a dozen or more major aerospace companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Collins Aerospace that help support NASA and the Department of Defense. Most of those companies are about 25 miles or more away from the south gates of the NASA spaceport and the Cape space force station.
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 09-13-2023 02:48 PM
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Originally posted by Jim Behling:
The closest USPS office to KSC is the Merritt Island station on Crockett Rd.
Using Google Maps and Google Earth, the Titusville post office is closer to Complex 39A (and 39B), regardless if you traveling by road or as the crow flies. Using 39A as an example — In any case, it seems the postal authorities chose Tituvsille to process philatelic requests. Maybe there was a logistical reason for doing so. I don't know. Maybe Merritt Island or CCSFS will become the preferred post office by collectors, but for now, the article was just citing what the closing post office said was going to be its replacement. |
Ken Havekotte
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posted 09-13-2023 03:42 PM
For Robert, just briefly, three Titusville postal stations have handled mailed-in space cover cancel requests since the Apollo program of the 1960's until the end of the shuttle program in 2011. When informed about the closing of KSCPO for Sept. 2023, the main Titusville P.O. on U.S. Route 1 was notified by USPS at Kennedy to see if they would be interested in resuming and processing KSC philatelic mail. That's how the discussion came about since Titusville P.O. did have that long-standing association with KSC mail beforehand, both in philatelic and other mail processing for some time. To my understanding, Merritt Island nor Cape Canaveral were not contacted directly, but I do plan in meeting with the MIPO postmaster soon about the closing. In most cases space cover mail has always been accommodated by MIPO, including for the SLS/Artemis 1 launch in Nov. 2022, but on a very small basis nowadays.
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Jim Behling
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posted 09-13-2023 06:22 PM
Also, SLC-40 and 41 will be launching humans within a year. |
Ken Havekotte
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posted 09-13-2023 08:40 PM
For both pads, CCPO would be best for launch cover cancels, however, from a geographical standpoint, SLC-41 is located on the NASA side of Kennedy Space Center. The border line between KSC and CCSFS ran between SLC-41 and 40. Therefore, many rocket shots, especially if they had a NASA payload, were cancelled at KSCPO in addition to CCPO. So in my book both sites were just about equal since the "Cape side" station conducted the launch vehicle preparations, launch itself, range tracking, and other on-base station support operations. Those were, however, the hey-day of our national space program when Pad 41 was used by the Air Force/NASA for the powerful Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket family. For today or in the near future, as Jim pointed out, it will be a new dawn for the old Titan launch complexes with their new and revised pad structures in supporting the Atlas V and Vulcan programs, and soon to be, human-rated for space travel as SLC-41 already is.
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OLDIE
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From: Portsmouth, England
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 09-14-2023 03:42 AM
Well, I'm glad my original question has sparked such a discussion. Let's hope the publicity will help bring about a satisfactory solution. |
Ken Havekotte
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Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-19-2023 02:38 PM
For those space cover cancel collectors, the last closing day of the KSCPO will be Sept. 26, 2023, next Tuesday, so all mailed-in cover requests should be over there by the end of this week. |
yeknom-ecaps
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From: Northville MI USA
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 09-19-2023 09:50 PM
Ken - request from Postmaster Tom at KSC from his mailed notice said requests needed to arrive by SEPTEMBER 15th (last Friday) to allow them time to process them. |
Ken Havekotte
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posted 09-20-2023 07:42 AM
That's certainly true Tom, however, that was mostly as an administrative logistics request. If requested covers mailed-in do arrive on Monday (the 25th) or beforehand, more likely they will be processed if time permits. |
Ken Havekotte
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Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-26-2023 07:20 PM
My firm, SpaceCoast Cover Service, went all out for today's "Last Day" closing of the NASA Kennedy Space Center Post Office in Florida. Since July 1, 1965, the KSC post office had been in service as a Contract Postal Unit (CPU) that ended September 26, 2023, after 58 years of postal operations. It had been a sad day in coming. Below is the first installment of four display cover montages or panel presentations. The original official NASA cachet (ONC) can be seen on several of the top level cover depictions. Those "First Day" official blue rubber stamp cachets were applied on July 1, 1965, in celebration of KSC's "First Day" of postal service located on the first floor of the main Headquarters Building of the space center's industrial area. Some of the covers presented have a combination of JFK and space stamped themes with last day cancels applied on both cover surfaces (front and back) in order to meet the required 66-cent first class postage rate.  At the time when the new "on-base" post office first opened its doors to center employees, the Gemini men-in-space program was already underway with Gemini 3 and 4 having flown. For nearly six decades later, the remaining 2-man Gemini flights (though not launched from KSC's Launch Complex 39), the whole Apollo program to the moon (except Apollo 7 was from "Cape-side"), Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, and all space shuttle missions took place from America's spaceport, which included the assembly and full on-orbit operations of the International Space Station (ISS) from 1998 to present day. Record breaking numbers of KSC processed (cancelled) mail were handled by KSC postal workers throughout the entire manned Apollo program from 1968 until 1975, including the shuttle program, with highlight cancel quantities for STS-1, 7, 26, 95, and 135. When the shuttle program ended in 2011, SpaceX with their Crew Dragon and cargo Falcon 9 space vehicles were orbiting the earth with their human crews, mostly to and from the ISS. With the advent of the Artemis 1 launch vehicle and with future crewed Orion spacecrafts to the moon and beyond, NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) flew as a milestone flight test in November 2022. It was a key postal cancel event for space cover collectors worldwide dreaming of a new dawn in space exploration. The last crew launch from Kennedy when the postal station was still active would be the SpaceX/NASA Crew 7 mission on August 26, a month earlier, with four astronauts that are now orbiting the earth from their space station outpost. The final launch from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy before the post office closure was Starlink 6-12 on a SpaceX/Falcon 9 rocket on September 3, 2023. More to come. |
onesmallstep
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posted 09-27-2023 08:30 AM
Nice collection of KSC covers, Ken. was the "Last Day" cachet applied by the KSC P.O., or your cover service? I notice they are in two different colored inks. |
Ken Havekotte
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Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-27-2023 12:34 PM
The "Last Day" rubber stamp cancel devices were private, but with two slightly different designs (can you see what the differences are)? Unfortunately, one of the more detailed images of the second design didn't quite turn out as expected, but still usable.I had wanted to revive the original July 1, 1965 ONC, but of course, change the "First Day" to "Last Day" as a replica of that first ONC graphic image used by NASA nearly six decades ago. Stephen Stein (CSM Enterprises) of West Hartford, CT, was a tremendous help, as a team effort, in working on the graphic design and changes that were quickly needed for the stamp productions. Stein handled all the work details almost on a daily basis with rubber stamp maker A. D. Perkins Company of New Haven, CT.
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Ken Havekotte
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posted 09-28-2023 04:04 PM
Here are more examples of the items that my firm, SpaceCoast Cover Service, had prepared for the "Last Day" closing of the Kennedy Space Center Post Office: The attractive colorful full-size cachet artwork, as seen below, depicts a future Artemis-like lunar explorer astronaut handling some space covers on the moon was the joint creation of veteran space cover collectors Dennis Ranski and Simon Cronk. Above are two more different full-size cachet designs by Ranski (Southern Cross Cachets) depicting JFK and a Saturn V moon rocket launch.  The above green full-size cachet cover was the artwork of space cover designer Jim Roth of Mission 57 showing a map of the Kennedy Space Center Industrial Area along with five different machine cancel slogans that had been used at the KSCPO from 1969 until 1983.  |
yeknom-ecaps
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posted 09-29-2023 10:07 PM
Ken - is your note on the cover stating that there was a total of 663 PHILATELIC cover postmark requests for KSC last day cancels OR is it stating a TOTAL of 663 items (philatelic AND non-philatelic items) had a last day postmark applied by the KSC PO on 9/26? Thanks.
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Ken Havekotte
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posted 09-30-2023 12:13 PM
The 663 number, Tom, was for the total number of covers and other items postmarked or hand cancelled on Sept. 26 for the "Last Day" closing of the KSCPO. Throughout September 2023 here is the breakdown of other cancel day events and their total numbers: - Sept. 3 -- Starlink 6-12 Launch .... 17 covers
- Sept. 4 -- Crew 6 Splashdown ... 37 covers
- Sept. 6 -- Misc. date cancels .. 26 covers
- Sept. 15 -- (same as above) .... 21 covers
- Sept. 20 -- Artemis II demo. ... 12 covers
- Sept. 25 -- 50th SL-3 rec-anniv. 42 covers
Source: The KSC-NASA (CPU) Monthly Philatelic Report. |
yeknom-ecaps
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From: Northville MI USA
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posted 09-30-2023 01:49 PM
Thanks Ken! That monthly report would certainly be an interesting source of information. |
Ken Havekotte
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Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-30-2023 02:16 PM
The monthly philatelic reports that we have only go back about 15 years or so. For some reason, Tom, all the prior monthly reports, maintenance records, etc., from the Apollo and early shuttle programs were never located from the old HQS Building at Kennedy. I was able to maintain and preserve with authorization our nation's Spaceport philatelic history of papers and reports that were still active before the closing a few days ago. But once that particular CPU-division had been officially closed this week, there was no need for KSC to maintain any of those records when asked about them.In addition, I have also kept all the original binders, files, folders, and other paper work from the KSC Philatelic Society (KSCPS) when Ang Taiani handed me over the club's official papers, meeting notes, membership lists, clippings, memos, vouchers, and correspondences several years ago. That in itself is a fascinating archive and study for any space cover and stamp collector. |
yeknom-ecaps
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posted 09-30-2023 04:09 PM
Ken - That's great. Any chance they could be scanned and be made available for everyone to review and study? Am sure a lot of that information could be used when creating exhibits, etc. |
Ken Havekotte
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Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-30-2023 08:10 PM
Yes, Tom, that can be done sometime in the future and I even had a request in doing so already. |
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