Postmark America service is a permanent, rubber hand
stamp with rotating date plugs that is permitted for participating Post Offices
to feature a symbolic image representing a town or region. Postmarking service
is available only at windows when it does not interfere with normal retail
operations. Postmasters can offer hand-back, will-call, or mail-back service.
Postmark America service can be used for mail entering the mailstream or
philatelic purposes.
Postmark America service affords tourists, customers,
and collectors an opportunity to use and collect postmarks at any time. It also
affords postmasters a way to generate revenue without having to staff or wait
for events. Postmark America service is date sensitive, and back-dating is prohibited.
Customers or collectors wanting a specific date must have their items presented
at the Post Office on or before the date of service.
On 20 May 2017 a new postmark was introduced in Zoar,
a village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The population was 169 at
the 2010 census. The community was founded in 1817 by German religious
dissenters as a utopian community, which survived until 1853. Much of the
village's early layout survives, as do many buildings from its utopian origins.
Most of the community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1969 as the Zoar Historic District, and was designated a National Historic
Landmark District in 2016. Some of the historic buildings are now operated as
museum properties.
The postmark can be obtained by writing to: Postmark
America, National Historic Landmark Zoar Village, Postmaster, PO Box 9998, Zoar,
OH 44697-9998, United States.
Date sent: 29 May 2017
Date postmark: 5 June 2017
Date received: 13 June 2017
Number of days: 15
Envelope in collection: 167
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