United States of America - Massachusetts

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 Massachusetts, lying in the New England region of the United States. It was the 6th 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 Iowa stamp from the 1981 State Bird & Flower series. I sent the envelope to the post office in the capital Boston to be postmarked. The envelope arrived back with three nice postmarks from USPS Milk Street Station, the main post office in Boston. The post office returned the envelope inside another cover, thus protecting it from getting a machine cancellation.

Date sent: 5 May 2017

Date postmark: 15 May 2017

Date received: 23 May 2017

Number of days: 18

Envelope in collection: 103