COVER N.77 - USA

Postmark: Santa Claus, IN - 7OCT2021 OCT7/2021
Posted on the 7th October; received on the 23rd February
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There is a Portuguese saying (in reality it is a quote from a poem by José Carlos Ary dos Santos, a poet I was lucky enough to have watched saying his own poems, a couple of times) that says that Christmas is whenever a man wants it to be.

So, it was Christmas, earlier this week, and it came through the letterbox in the form of a beautiful cover, sent from the aptly named city of Santa Claus, in the state of Indiana, USA. Thank you so much Yue!

As could only be expected, it seems that Santa Claus, in Spencer County, with a population of about 2000 souls,  evolves around the idea of an evergreen Christmas, with a theme park, and even a golf course, themed on it. 

Spencer County can also claim to its name the fact that Abraham Licoln spent some of his early years there, so visitors can enjoy Christmas with an historical twist....

 

Upon receiving the cover, one of the things that grabbed my attention was the incredibly neat handwriting on the address lines. My own handwriting is so bad and ugly that I have stopped using it on the covers I post, and now print the address on them. A beautiful handwriting really adds to the general look of a cover, I find and this was absolutely perfect!.

Stamps, left to right:

14 cent stamp issued on 24APR1972, celebrating Fiorello LaGuardia, the Republican Mayor of New York throughout the second world war years, in a stream of three consecutive mandates that started in 1934 and ended in 1945.

2 Forever stamps, part of a four self-adhesive se-tenant stamp set, issued on 07OCT2021, as the year's Christmas emission of the USPS, entitled "A Visit from St. Nick".

Being a First Day Cover, the Xmas stamps are cancelled with the First Day commemorative Postmark, that highlights the title of the emission.