Post Office offers special cancellation

During 2010, the U.S. Postal Service will recognize all 52 counties in the Texas Plains Trail Region (TPTR) with a special pictorial cancellation. 

The sixteenth Special Cancellation activity will take place the Clarendon Post Office on April 21, 2010.  For the rest of the year, a Post Office in every TPTR county seat will be offering their
respective version of the design.  The city, date and county will change each week.

The Texas Plains Trail is one of 10 such trails in the state, part of the Texas Heritage Trails Program, implemented by the Texas Historical Commission.

The following web site provides additional information on the Texas Plains Heritage Trails program – www.thc.state.tx.us & www.texasplainstrail.com.

People visiting the Clarendon, Post Office on Wednesday, April 21 may obtain the Clarendon, Donley, Texas Plains Trail Regional pictorial postmark in person at the temporary Post Office station established there.

Those who cannot be there that day but who wish to obtain the special pictorial postmark may submit a mail order request to: Clarendon, Texas Plains Trail Regional Pictorial Postmark, ATTN: Postmaster, PO Box 9998, Clarendon, TX 79226-9998.

Pictorial postmarks are available only for the date indicated, and requests must be postmarked no later than 30 days following the requested pictorial postmark date.

All requests must include a stamped envelope or postcard bearing at least the minimum First-Class Mail postage.

Items submitted for postmark may not include postage issued after the date of the requested postmark.  Such items will be returned unserviced.

Customers wishing to obtain a postmark should affix stamps to any envelope or postcard of their choice, address the envelope or postcard to themselves or others, insert a card or postcard thickness in envelopes for sturdiness, and tuck in the flap.  Place the envelope or postcard in a larger envelope and address listed above.

Customers can also send stamped envelopes and postcards without addresses for postmark, as long as they supply a larger envelope with adequate postage and their return address.  After applying the pictorial postmark, the Postal Service will return the items, with or without address, under addressed protective cover.