Broome County, New York Postal History
Binghamton: May 29, 1830 - Present
Binghamton - Registry Bill with Postmaster's cancel - 1882
BINGHAMTON, N.Y./REG.BUS./MAY/17/1882/CORRECT/GEO.W.DUNN, P.M. 31mm Blue postmaster's handstamp for
validating registry information for registered item
mailed to Binghamton from Coventry, NY.
Binghamton - 1882
BINGHAMTON/SEP/2/6AM/N.Y. 28mm Black CDS with time denoted. Black quartered killer
on 3 cent blue green banknote (#207) on grocers ad cover.
Binghamton - 1883
BINGHAMTON/APR/13/7PM/N.Y. 28mm Black CDS with time denoted. Black quartered killer
on 1 cent blue banknote (#182) and 2 cent vermillion banknote (#183).
Paid the first class rate of 3 cents per half ounce which dropped to
2 cents per half ounce on October 1, 1883.
Binghamton - 1885
L.M.AGT. BINGHAMTON/FEB/14/N.Y. 27mm Black CDS; Mail agent.
Black killer on 2 cent brown on white stamped envelope, die 1 (#U277).
Binghamton - Postmaster's handstamp - 1888
E. H. FREEMAN, Postmaster Violet postmaster's straight-line handstamp
on Certificate of Depost on Money Order Account
from the postmaster at Oxford, NY.
Binghamton - 1888 Double Weight, Registered Usage
REGISTERED/MAY 11, 1888/BINGHAMTON, N.Y. Magenta straight line town. Manuscript #614. Black cork killers
on three 2 cent green (#213) and a pair of 4 cent green (#211). The
stamps paid the 4 cent, 2 ounce first-class rate effective July 1, 1885
and the 10 cent registration fee for no indemnity effective May 1, 1879.
Binghamton - 1889 Registered Usage
REGISTERED/MAR 3, 1889/BINGHAMTON, N.Y. Magenta straight line town. Manuscript #864. Black cork killers
on 2 cent green (#213) and 10 cent brown (#209). The stamps paid
the 2 cent per ounce first-class rate effective July 1, 1885 and
the 10 cent registration fee for no indemnity effective May 1, 1879.
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