Earth Day 2013 Ink Jet

The USPS has begun using a new inkjet slogan:  Earth Day 2012 with 3 wind turbines and a sun.

I have been able to discover the date that these slogans were first used in Syracuse and Albany.

Looks like Syracuse began using the slogan on Friday, April 5, 2013 and Albany on Saturday, April 6.

Since February 2013, all mail from northeastern NY is handled by the Albany processing center.

I have access to a large amount of mailings to a regional internet service provider.  Usually I just find a few commemorative stamps, but I'm always on the look-out for these ink jet slogans.

Saratoga Mail Clerk cancel

Here's an unusual cancel that I purchased at the Crossroads Stamp Show in Quechee, Vermont recently.

The stamp was originally missed by the Saratoga Springs, NY machine cancel, but obviously was caught by the person sorting the mails. He used his device to cancel the stamp.

This is from a post card.  The Saratoga Springs machine cancel is partly exposed on the left side of the post card.

I used the retroreveal.org website to discover the wording on the complete cancel.  I haven't been able to determine the clerk's full name yet, but have deciphered the rest which reads  "MAILING CLERK".

(Postscript:  a blog reader suggests that the mailing clerk's name was J. M. Corey.)