| | POST OFFICE IN PARADISE - UPU Letters Mailed Shipside or Aboard Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22) |
 | | This cover franked with the 5¢ ultramarine Scott No. 32, canceled with a cork cancel attributed to the San Francisco post office and postmarked on the back with a San Francisco postmark dated October 2 (determined to be 1886 by the sailing table and also because by this time Briggs was settled back in Boston). |
 | | An April, 1882 newspaper article in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu's leading newspaper, noted the large amount of late mail brought to the post office after the mail was closed for a particular sailing and advocated imposing an additional charge for accepting it at shipside up to the time of sailing. |
 | | New Zealand, being West of the International Date Line, was one calendar day ahead of the North American coast. |
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