Looking for info on Washington Local Post

In my capacity as treasurer and public contact for the Local Post Collectors Society, I recently received a letter inquiring about Washington Local Post. Washington Local Post produced several covers bearing Boy Scout-themed cachets in 1965 as illustrated in Levy’s Boy & Girl Scout Cachet Covers of the United States, and the writer wanted to know if we could tell him anything more about the operation.

I had never run across any Washington Local Post material myself, but queries to a couple of other LPCS members garnered a bit of information. It seems Washington Local Post was active in Canton, Texas, which is east of Dallas, from 1965 to 1967, but it’s unclear exactly who was responsible for it, or whether there were ever any Washington Local Post stamps.

One of the Society members who shared information with me communicated there was also a Washington Local Post active in Pennsylvania from at least 1982 until around the turn of the century, but there’s no indication it was in any way connected to the earlier operation in Texas.

Do you have any information about the Washington Local Post from the 1960s? If so, I would love to add some more details.

Published 2023-02-27