2306 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Bethany from Minneapolis sent me a card that her grandparents sent her from their visit to Florida. After reading about both cities, Panama City, Florida seemed more interesting.

According to Wikipedia, Panama City got its name because, "George Mortimer West hoped to spur real estate development in Bay County during a period of intense popular interest in the construction of the Panama Canal by changing the town's name from Harrison to Panama City, because a straight line between Chicago and Trujillo Honduras the Central American country Panama's national capital intersected the Florida town. Additionally, since required meanders around land formations in a seaborne route to the canal added distance when starting at other ports, Panama City was the closest developed port in the US mainland to the Caribbean entrance of the Panama Canal."

Panama City is also the home of Tyndall Air Force Base and the US Navy's Naval Support Activity, which does a lot of research and training. An hour and a half in Alabama you will also find Fort Rucker, the US Army's Aviation Center of Excellence.

Either the US Postal Service or Canada Post used a sharpie to cancel the stamps, even thought they were already cancelled in Minneapolis. Maybe the postie who did this to the stamps was a Trump supporter - he loved his sharpies.

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