OCR Text |
Show SOUVENIR MAIL SWAMPS NAVY POSTAL CLERKS Navy mailmen, weary from stamping 650,000 souvenir envelopes, envel-opes, learned with dismay that huge additional quantities of philatelic phila-telic mail are enroute to Little America on the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea. The mail, which is being forwarded for-warded from the New York fleet postoffice, will reach Little America Amer-ica in January. There, mailmen on the Antarctic expedition will attach a special stamp that will convert the envelopes into desirable desir-able cachets. (Cachet is a collectors' term indicating in-dicating a stamp issued to commemorate com-memorate an initial postal run.) The flood of mail began when officials announced ten days before be-fore the Mt. Olympus left Norfolk, Va., that the expedition was willing will-ing to "cachet" mail with a special stamp. It depicts a penguin anchoring an-choring a ship to an iceberg. In response to this announcement, announce-ment, 650,000 letters poured in from every state in the union and j from 35 countries. Some of the latter included such isolated places j as the Isle of Man and Pitcairn' Island, and there were a few from '( the Russian occupied zone of Ger- j many. j |