#Pictorial postmarks full

The picture postmark must be requested by the postal customer.

The picture postmark is available on working days between December 1 and 24.

If you wish to mail Christmas cards to the post office, package them – with postage stamps already on them – in a sturdy envelope or box, and mail to: Postmaster, Santa Claus Station, Santa Claus, IN 47579-9998.Apply postage to cards or letters before bringing or mailing them to the post office.Allow at least a 2-inch by 4-inch space in the stamp area for the picture postmark.She asks that anyone interested in getting the special cancellation on their holiday mail to follow these guidelines: “Postal patrons worldwide request the picture postmark each year and many customers traditionally drive hundreds of miles to personally obtain the famous cancellation on their holiday mail.” “The Santa Claus holiday postmark has become the most popular in the nation over the past two decades,” says Postmaster Marian Balbach. She loves to travel and experience new things. Olivia is in her freshman year at Indiana University and exploring a future in international affairs and global concerns. This year’s artist is Olivia Hitz, daughter of Cathy Hitz and the late Don Hitz from Santa Claus, Indiana. This special picture postmark has been offered every Christmas season since 1983.Įach year, the holiday postmark is designed by a local high school art student as part of an annual contest. This famous small-town post office is the only one in the world with the Santa Claus name and receives over 400,000 pieces of mail in December – compared to only 13,000 pieces of mail per month the rest of the year. On December 1, the post office will begin offering the picture postmark to cancel the postage stamps on holiday mail again this year. All scans can be credited to the person should this be required and requested at the time.The Santa Claus, Indiana, Post Office has selected the 2015 special picture postmark for the upcoming holiday season. If any user has a scan of a postmark that is not shown in this database, a better scan of one that is already shown or a variation that they feel should be listed then we would be grateful for a copy and details so that the information presented here can be brought up to date. This will show only those places that have a picture of the office Search for places with a picture of the office Special postmarks are not included in this search This will return all the operational postmarks that were in use in a given year These books have a sample impressions along with some additional information Search the date stamp impressions book from the archives This is usful for the telephone, Christmas, war bonds, post early slogans etc, etc If you are looking for a machine roller that had a slogan section enter the details here. This is also useful for searching for all places that begin with a certain letter or cobination of letters as well as the numericial cancellations such as (10) etc, etc If you are looking for an office where the start of the name is known, enter the name in here. This is also useful for searching terms such as telegraph, diamond etc, etc If you are looking for the numerical cancellation for a particular office, enter the name in here. If the lower box is not entered it will defalt to the letter A This is used to search the main index with two items for hard to locate postmarks List of abbreviations used on British postmarks Telegraph marks including those that use telegraph codesĪdditional details on the slogan postmarks of Great Britain This is used for special event, First day of Issue, censor marks, forwarding agents etc, etc

If searching the British or Australian postmarks, a 2 nd table will be shown at the end with any foreign cancellations recorded as used on these stamps. To search the database for place names use this option

To see how these will be assigned, click the camera icon ( ) to view the map We are updating the search option to allow counties. View the most recent additions to the database Have you got one of these postmarks? There are stillīritish places listed that require an illustration. Multiple images can be opened at the same time to compare types There are also 170 pictures of Post Office buildings linked to officesĬlick on the camera icon in the results list to see a larger scan - these all expand on the page. There are 19843 British Postmarks listed with 17697 illustrated - (about 89.19 percent), this includes 1077 British special event Postmarks.

#Pictorial postmarks full

The entire database contains 22960 places or variations of which 19985 have pictures - (about 87.04 percent) See full database stats The Largest Database of British Postmarks on the net