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 26 July 2012 a new postmark was published in the USPS Postal Bulletin for Bristol,
Pennsylvania. It shows a covered bridge of which there are many in the county. Bucks
County was home to more than 50 covered bridges at one time. Only 12 bridges
remain, 10 of which can still carry vehicles.
Bristol Borough is a borough in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, 37 km northeast of Center City Philadelphia, opposite Burlington,
New Jersey on the Delaware River. Bristol Borough predates Philadelphia, being
settled in 1681 and first incorporated in 1720. After 1834, the town became
very important to the development of the American Industrial Revolution as the
terminus city of the Delaware Canal. The canal and a short trip on the Delaware
also gave the town access to the mineral resources available in Connecticut,
New Jersey and New York. From its earliest days Bristol Borough was a centre of
textile mills, foundries, milling, and miscellaneous manufacturing. By the
1880s Bristol Borough was home to many factories, including companies
manufacturing wall paper and carpet. In World War I, the Bristol Borough docks
had sufficient space for a shipyard to construct twelve building slips for the
construction of merchant vessels.
The postmark can be obtained by writing to: Postmark
America, Bristol Post Office, Postmaster, 699 Beaver Street, Bristol, PA 19007-9998, United States.
Apart from a postmark on the envelope, I got an extra impression on the blank card inside.
Apart from a postmark on the envelope, I got an extra impression on the blank card inside.
Date sent: 16 June 2017
Date postmark: 3 July 2017
Date received: 7 July 2017
Number of days: 21
Envelope in collection: 211
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