ScottV Stamps

Philatelists have always been good at finding new things to commemorate and collect.  There are souvenir covers for first day of issue for stamps, first flights, airport openings, museum events, and we can find other notable events quietly unmarked on cover, such as the first and last days of operation for post offices.  There are even covers for the renaming of post offices. There's an odd series of philatelic covers that I never heard about until I found a stack of them in my Dad's collection after he passed away.  These are "Date Meets Zip" covers.  The idea is that the date matches the zip code.  So each zip code that might possible intersect a valid date will only do so one day in any given century. In other words: Date Meets Zip means that the date (9.24.08) is the same as the zipcode (92408) that day. Here are covers from 92408 and 62907: Over on collectpostmarks.com, they have a Date Meets Zip calendar  but it is suspiciously empty this month. I loo...

At a recent show, we had time to pick through my own boxes of covers.  We put one box together hastily the night before without looking at the covers in any detail.  It turned out that there were some neat items in there... These were covers from a single correspondence, with some creative ones with hand-drawn and collage elements.  One was a heavily illustrated piece of wood.  They all went to John Teagle (alternately Johnny or Johnnie) of Akron, Ohio, who saved them and may have been a stamp collector as well.  They were dated 1981 to 1989. Clearly the senders were artists of some kind, so the recipient would also be a creator of some kind.  One mentions a 1989 concert: "went to see the Dragsters last night (Sunday 19 at CBGB)" and "Dave Janusko met Todd, chatted."  You mean this Dave Janusko ? Another sender was in Florida in 1981, said they heard "the fmodels single (it was really bad) and they went and saw the rockets.  One from Manchester, E...