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RMH
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From: Ohio
Registered: Mar 2001

posted 12-11-2001 10:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for RMH   Click Here to Email RMH     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I collect space shuttle launch covers and I like to prepare them myself so that I can add space related stamps to the covers. Ever since STS-26 the covers have always came back with a hand cancel with three killer bars. All the covers I sent out prior to STS-26 had a machine cancel. I would like to get my covers machine cancelled.

If anyone prepares covers please let me know where to send or If I just ask for machine cancels on my covers. I have always sent to Potmaster KSC, FL.

I have a relative that has someone get launch covers for him and his covers are either machine cancelled or hand cancelled with no killer bars.

Bob M
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Posts: 1744
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 12-13-2001 02:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bob M   Click Here to Email Bob M     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The recommended address for sending covers for Space Shuttle launch-dated cancels follows:
Postmaster
USPS/ATS
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32815-9998
Put on the outside of the envelope you send the covers in: "Philatelic Material" and also what you desire, such as: "STS-108 Launch/machine cancels."

You must enclose with the covers to be canceled a larger self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Your canceled covers will be returned inside the SASE, which will protect them from damage, extra cancels and bar codes.

Ken Havekotte
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From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001

posted 12-15-2001 09:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ken Havekotte   Click Here to Email Ken Havekotte     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Another source to obtain Space Shuttle crew-mission emblem cachet covers is from the NASA vendor that supplies all the Shuttle cachet envelopes -- Ken Havekotte's SpaceCoast Cover Service on Merritt Island, FL.

Upcoming Shuttle cachet mission covers can be ordered direct by sending a #10 SASE for receiving up to a dozen uncancelled covers. Even postmarked (for KSC launch day) cachet covers are also available along with a postage-paid return stamped envelope. Any quantity of cachet covers, both mint (uncancelled) and postmarked for launch and even landing activities can be ordered at any time while supplies last.

johnraiders
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From: Cobham, UK
Registered: Sep 2009

posted 01-19-2010 02:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for johnraiders     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I know at the NASA causeway there's a guy from the Post Office, but if you can't get there who do you contact to buy some? I figure it must be near by Post Office.

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