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Official Mail Congressional Free Frank: John Melcher, U.S. House of Representatives (1969-1977). Printed free frank package postal label, as a member of the House [Melcher was later a Senator in 1977-1989], on brown heavy card stock. With additional blue partial "ALL-FOR ......." handstamp which would have been applied to the top of a mail bundle indicating that all the mail in the bundles was for (a particular post office or a particular postal route, etc.) -- such markings are fairly scarce. Though such Congressional free frank mail seldom bears a direct date, we know that this must have been used in the 1969-1977 time period while Melcher was a Representative. I further guess, based on the style, that this label was printed during the USPO era, before the USPS formed in August 1970; but it could have been used later. As a collector of State (North Carolina) postal history, I regard such items as being collectible for the state that the politician represented. Such items -- and especially this form of package label -- were rarely saved and are actually usually quite scarce. ACTUAL item. |
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