Hi Micki and List,
One of the lenders had a piece of V-Mail in his pile
of letters, and it was in a small envelope, with the
address that you write at the top peeking out of the
window.
The return address is "War & Navy Departments V-Mail
Service" -- and in the upper right corner where a
stamp would be is printed "Penalty for private use to
avoid payment of postage, $300."
More than one person has written and said that V-Mail
didn't have envelopes -- since I have found at least
one example that did, my new question is when were
evelopes used and when were they not used?
This project is just bringing up more questions than
answers!
Other people I have talked to since my first post seem
to think that servicemen were responsible for air mail
stamps. I have been reading a series of letters
written aboard the USS Healy during WWII, and he
mentions to his family not to use V-Mail because it
takes much longer, and air mail is faster.
I am wondering if V-Mail was always an option for
which you wouldn't need a stamp, but if you wanted to
get your letter there faster, you chose air mail??
Thanks for your help!
Kim
--- Micki Ryan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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