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Postal mixup highlights sharp clerk drives postal accuracy
A Nebraska reader recounts a mistaken mail routing tale from 1969 where a letter to Carl Priesner was misaddressed Igakkakam Nebraska due to a keyboard error. The piece praises postal ingenuity and notes local town pride in Arthur funding, gym, pool, and art gallery Paintin Place.
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U.S. Postoffice Department
Iowa
Fort Lewis
Uncle Sam
Spiro Agnew
Federal Communications Commission
Carl Priesner
Ogahala
Nebraska
Grosse Pointe Park
Michigan
Detroit
Iga
Igakkakam
Post Office Department
Ogallala
Sharp
Blount
U. S. Postoffice Department
Arthur