I still have more questions than answers 13 Dec 2019 02:56:13pm
I have this cover, but I am not familiar with the city being in Hawaii. A little googling tells me that Kwajalein is part of the Marshall Islands. Why does this postmark say Hawaii?
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Possibly because Kwajalein Atoll was the site of an American radar station and therefore the sender being possibly US military would have had postal privileges that meant mail being franked as the nearest US state (Hawaii). Just a thought.
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Kwajalein is small. Really small.
That its occasional handful of outbound mail would be on the next plane to Hawaii, sans postmark, makes a lot of sense.
That the Honolulu Post Office would have ginned-up a CDS for Kwajalein makes a lot of sense.
And what were they to do? Leave out any state designation?
Using the "HI", which they were already authorized to use, and had in place, makes a lot of sense.
One of the nice things about island life is the occasional make-do informality.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who dumped-out the contents & sterilized baby food jars so that some visiting scientists could go home with fresh water samples from a place much, much larger than Kwajalein and much, much smaller than Hawaii)
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Being free of any hard information or experience, I am nonetheless going to suggest that almost all home-bound embassy/consulate mail - and all sensitive mail - travels by diplomatic pouch.
Which ain't a pouch, but there you have it.
I've picked-up US passports in two countries, and do not recall if there was an option for registry/courier service.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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