To Kimberly Kenney:
My understanding of V-mail was that the serviceman wrote his message on
standard sized pads, which then went to the censor for checking and then to
the image service for photo-reduction and printing onto the Vmail standard
mailer, one side one sheet, which was folded over and mailed as a single
sheet with the address outside and a printed logo-- dark blue I think--
identifying it as Vmail. No stamp, no return address. I think they were
delivered by Western Union, not by the US Mail. Mind you this was a hair
before my cognizant time, but one museum I worked in had a collection of
them. I also have a personal family collection of Civil War letters, written
from the camps near the battlefields, and they all have stamps.

Micki Ryan
Highline Historical Society
Burien WA

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