MAKE YOUR VALENTINE'S DAY CARDS
SPECIAL THIS YEAR
Give your Valentine envelopes something extra this year and get your cards postmarked from towns like Beauty, Kentucky (41203); Bliss, New York (14024); Hartsville, Tennessee (37074); Loveland, Colorado (80537); Paradise, Pennsylvania (17562); Lovely, Kentucky (41231); Valentine, Texas (79854) or Valentine, Nebraska (69201).
For those who have the opposite message to send, you can have the cards postmarked from places like Sour Lake, Texas; Embarrass, Minnesota; Independence, California; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; Diablo, California; or even Coward, South Carolina."
According to the Post Office , "If you want to add any of these extra sentiments to your greeting cards, you can simply address the card to that special person, affix a First-Class Mail postage stamp and put it into a larger envelope, also with postage, address it to "Valentine's Day Postmark, Postmaster," and use the proper zip code. Your envelope(s) should then get that town's postmark.
In order to make sure the greeting cards receive the special postmark and are delivered in time for Valentine's Day, requests should be sent to the cities above by Feb. 5.