Oswald’s Seaport Trader Order Coupon Mystery Solved

[Gary Craig]

The gun was sent COD, collect on delivery. $10 deposit, the rest paid on delivery. Where is the COD receipt?

[Tim Nickerson]

The gun was sent COD, collect on delivery. $10 deposit, the rest paid on delivery. Where is the COD receipt?

Was a COD receipt required? Were they even standard for REA or Seaport?

[Tim Nickerson]

Mr. BALL. Is there anything in your files which shows that the Railway Express did remit to you the $19.95?
Mr. MICHAELIS. The fact that the exhibit number--may I see this green one?
Mr. BALL. Five.
Mr. MICHAELIS. Was attached to the red copy of the invoice.
Mr. BALL. Red copy of the invoice being----
Mr. MICHAELIS. No; was attached to the red copy of the invoice, exhibit number----
Mr. BALL. Two.
Mr. MICHAELIS. Indicates that the money was received.





It would be nice to have a color photo of Michaelis Exhibit #2.

[John Iacoletti]

Isn’t it interesting that in both cases, the serial numbers are handwritten in on otherwise typed forms?

[Thomas Graves]

Isn’t it interesting that in both cases, the serial numbers are handwritten in on otherwise typed forms?

Dear John,

Yes, it's absolutely fascinating!

What it absolutely screams is that it really was a Military Industrial Intelligence Community Complex c-o-n-s-p-i-r-a-c-y all after all, with hundreds (if not thousands!) of people involved!

--  MWT 

[David Von Pein]

...the name and address is stamped onto them and not filled out like the rest of the entries on it. I mean, what are the odds that these companies are taking in hundreds if not thousands of orders and what did Judy in the office do - create a stamp for every single customer?

The name & address on both forms isn't a "stamp". It's typewritten.

[Michael Walton]

Ah, OK, thanks David. I thought it was a stamp because it's pretty badly misaligned, like it was stamped on. I guess it was a rush job and they typed in the name and address at a later date. If you look at it, everything else is lined up nicely except the address.

I still find it interesting how that one form is such a hodge-podge of handwritten and typed up stuff. It'd be really neat to see what the forms looked like 4 or 5 back and after this one, to see if those, too, were such a hodge-podge of handwritten and [crooked] typed up. And as John I. says, it's also interesting how the SN is written in and everything else is typed up. If nothing else you have to ask - what the hell was going on in the orders department LOL?

Was Judy and the gang scribbling in everything that's coming in, then perhaps at the end of the week, their KGB-linked Russian office manager Valeri told them to go back and type in the name and address of each one? Perhaps Valeri didn't quite know which one was going to be the one 8 months ahead of time to pull for his KGB moles to pass on to the FBI so LHO would be the accused assassin - LOL.

LOL!