United States of America - Alabama

In my World envelope collection I do not just want to have envelopes from stamp-issuing countries and territories, but also from other regions. This includes the 50 states of the United States of America. This envelope comes from the state of Alabama, lying in the south eastern region of the United States. It was the 22nd state, admitted in 1819.

The stamps were affixed by me and come from the Flags of our nations, state birds and Greetings series and four copies of a stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of statehood. I had to stick on all these stamps to make up the tariff for an international letter. I sent the envelope to the post office in the capital Montgomery to be postmarked. At first it arrived back with only a postmark on the flag stamp. The rest was left unused. I sent it back with a request to postmark all stamps. On the back I put a global forever stamp so that the postage for this second trip would be paid.

Date sent: 18 May 2017 (2nd attempt)

Date postmark: 2 June 2017

Date received: 8 June 2017

Number of days: 21

Envelope in collection: 150