# 4808-12 - 2013 10c Snowflakes
Strip of Five
City: Weston, Missouri
Quantity: 500 million
Printed By: CCL Label Inc., finished by Avery Dennison
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11 Vertical
Color: multicolored
The Blizzard Of 1888 And Blizzard Mail
Just two days before, on March 10, temperatures in the northeast were in the mid-50s. But the next day, cold Arctic air from Canada met with Gulf air from the south sending temperatures plummeting. The rain quickly became snow and winds reached hurricane-strength – about 85 miles per hour in New York City.
Because of the bad weather, mail service halted in New York City and the surrounding areas. But the mail was so important to some businesses, they arranged for their own delivery! AW Seward and Dr. WH Mitchell hired a special messenger to take mail aboard the Steamer Chancellor of the New Jersey Central Railroad from Bergen Point, Bayonne, to New York City. Over the course of four days, about 500 letters were transported. Much of the mail consisted of stories from newspaper reporters in Bayonne to their papers in the city.
Strip of Five
City: Weston, Missouri
Quantity: 500 million
Printed By: CCL Label Inc., finished by Avery Dennison
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11 Vertical
Color: multicolored
The Blizzard Of 1888 And Blizzard Mail
Just two days before, on March 10, temperatures in the northeast were in the mid-50s. But the next day, cold Arctic air from Canada met with Gulf air from the south sending temperatures plummeting. The rain quickly became snow and winds reached hurricane-strength – about 85 miles per hour in New York City.
Because of the bad weather, mail service halted in New York City and the surrounding areas. But the mail was so important to some businesses, they arranged for their own delivery! AW Seward and Dr. WH Mitchell hired a special messenger to take mail aboard the Steamer Chancellor of the New Jersey Central Railroad from Bergen Point, Bayonne, to New York City. Over the course of four days, about 500 letters were transported. Much of the mail consisted of stories from newspaper reporters in Bayonne to their papers in the city.