Special Delivery
Add a little fun to your cards and letters with “remailing”. Remailing is most popular for Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Hundreds of thousands of cards are sent to cities like Santa Claus, Indiana or Valentine, Nebraska to be postmarked, and then mailed to the recipient.
Why not have your special occasion cards postmarked from cities with dog-related names? Look through a road atlas or the internet for city names that are meaningful to you. Try these sites; placesnamed.com, epodunk.com, and Wikipedia.
Not all towns have their own post office. Type the city name and state in the USPS Post Office Locator to see if your chosen city has a post office. The address and telephone number for each post office will be found in the search results.
Some dog-related city names I found are:
- Brittany, LA
- Boston, MA
- Cavalier, ND
- Chesapeake, OH and VA
- Dane, WI
- English, IN
- Newfoundland, NJ and PA
- Norfolk, CT, MA, NE, NY, VA
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Pembroke, GA, KY, ME, MA, NC, VA
- St. Bernard, LA and OH
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Shepherd, MI, MT, and TX
- Springer, NM and OK
- Sussex, NJ, VA, WI
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Argyle, MO and Scotland SD, GA and MD
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Blue Eye, MO
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Ireland, IN and WV
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Finland, MN
- Marmaduke, AR
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Russia, OH
- Welsh, LA and Wales, AK, MA, ND and WI
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Westminster, CA, CO, MD, MA, SC, TX, VT
- Champion, MI, NE, PA
Guidelines for Remailing:
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Put the stamped and addressed envelopes you would like postmarked in an outer envelope.
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Address the outer envelope to “Postmaster”, Remailing, and the full post office address (street, city, state, and zip code).
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Send to the remailing post office. Remember to allow extra time for delivery of your envelopes to their final destination.
Hint:
You might want to decorate the envelope to draw attention to the out-of-town postmark. The lower left corner of the envelope is ideal for a comment such as, “Congratulations on your CH from Champion, Michigan!”
