United States of America - Connecticut

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 Connecticut, lying in the northeastern region of the United States, it is the southernmost state of New England. It was the 5th state, admitted in 1788.

The stamps were affixed by me and come from the Flags of our nations and Greetings series, a stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of statehood and the Connecticut stamp from the 1981 State Bird & Flower series. I sent the envelope to the post office in the capital Hartford to be postmarked. The envelope arrived back with three nice postmarks from USPS Hartford post office. Unfortunately there was also a machine cancellation at the top of the envelope.

Date sent: 26 April 2017

Date postmark: 16 May 2017

Date received: 20 May 2017

Number of days: 24

Envelope in collection: 88