Actual birth date covers ..... 7/25/2018

Postmarked: June 11, 1959! I suspect most of us collect stamps and postal history related specifically to our own lives. After all, it's a way to personalize your collecting. Not being fortunate enough to have had a stamp issued on my actual birth date (like my youngest son), I've spent much of my life searching for a cover postmarked on the day I was born -- not just the date, but the actual day I was born. I knew that when or if I ever did find one it would be in the proverbial "quarter box," as I'm certainly not quite old enough to be rare or costly, and -- to the best of my knowledge -- the only faintly philatelically event was Postmaster General Summerfield banning the book Lady Chatterly's Lover as mailable material (he deemed it too obscene -- a ruling struck down in 1960). At any rate, after many years of searching, sure enough, a junque box turned up an artifact from the day I was born; a common-use postal card that was a dues reminder to members of Local 134, I.B.E.W. (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Chicago chapter). Even though an example has finally been found, I find I'm still looking. Just because. Now, if I can just find one from Santa Fe, N.M., the city of my birth...