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Description: Christmas postcard from Pittstown, New Jersey rural carrier John S. MacIlroy to William Taylor dated December 21, 1915. The back of the postcard has a printed five stanza poem titled "If" that includes the verse, "when packages due don't come on time / And those who are sending don't raise their sign / it sure would save anxiety / if I knew you and you knew me." Many rural letter carriers left holiday postcards for their patrons, though few went as far as Mr. MacIlroy in creating specialty cards such as this one. Fortunately for MacIlroy, he remembered to place a stamp on this postcard. Carriers who simply placed postcards in their patrons' mailboxes without stamps were subject to disciplinary measures for misuse of the mailbox.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified creator

Medium: Color postcard

Culture: American

Geography: USA

Date: 1915

Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=203574

Repository: National Postal Museum

Collection: Rural Free Delivery

Accession number: A.2008-47
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Source Rural Letter Carrier's Christmas Card
Author Smithsonian Institution from United States
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