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Gordon,

Regarding postmarks of no longer existing post offices on Oz stamps - For a number of years I collected Wisconsin Postal History, concentrating on Discontinued Post Office cancels on covers (envelopes) and cards. I had a specialized collection of the counties I was born in and the one in which we lived when I was collecting. Most of the DPOs had names that were still recognizable as they had been small villages and still contained a concentration of houses. Some, however, were places that none of the older county residents could remember ever hearing. A couple I searched for but never found were in existence only 1 or 2 years, so it's not surprising I couldn't locate covers with the postmarks. Some of those early post offices were in crossroads stores that served surrounding farmers and had no real concentration of homes. Sometimes the name of the post office was the name of the store, which was also the name of the store's owner. One of the ones I really wanted to find probably was like that - Thon, Wisconsin. Since I stopped collecting before the days of the internet, I decided I'd search for a couple of the great unknowns - so far no luck

Bill