COVER N. 220 - USA

Postmark: Year iof the rabbit First day of Issue - San Francisco, CA 94188 12.01.23  

Posted on the 12th January; Received on the 9th March 2023

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There is such thing as perfection, in spite of common belief!

All it takes to prove it is a look at the beautiful, neat and carefully laid out first day cover I got from Dennis. Everything was absolutely spotless. From the stamps to the postmarks, the addressing, the layout and even the cardboard backed protection sleeve in which it travelled across the Atlantic.

Full marks for everything, Dennis. Tanks a lot! (also thanks for the much appreciated aircraft stamps).

Now, that's class.....

Bunnies, the year of them....

It so happens that one of my family names is Coelho, so I'm counting on getting some positive dust from the side effects of the times, given that the year of the rabbit is predicted to be a year of hope, I read....

Funny thing about signs is that the personality traits of the natives of any sign are mostly, if not exclusively, good, if we are to believe the potted reviews of each sign that abound in web space  .... there's is probably no bad sign, so all the ogres  responsible for the human generated catastrophes that we witness year after year must all be signless people, I presume....

Anyway,

As I read on USPS's site, the colours chosen for the beautiful rabbit stamps - red, pink and purple - are considered to bring luck to the natives of the sign.... again, confirming my assertion that to have a sign is always a good indication of character, rabbits, according to the same source, are elegant, gracious and kind...

The Forever self-adhesive  rabbit stamp was issued on 12JAN2023.

To complete postage, Dennis most adequately used an "Additional Ounce" stamp, issued on 24JAN2021 also featuring a bunny, a  brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmanion).

It's also nice to see that only the new year stamps were cancelled with the first day of issue postmark, while the additional ounce stamp was given the day mark of the post office.