The picture above is now history, it is a postmark from the last day that parcels sent from Long Beach were stamped "Long Beach". As of September 8, 2009 letters sent from the city no longer bear its name. All mail from zips starting with 906, 907 or 908 are being sent to Orange County and will be stamped "Santa Ana". Postal customers can request a special hand stamp if they must have the LBC on their letters.
Long Beach postmark is cancelled by USPS
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This blog is a journal of Long Beach, California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It will be updated frequently with the pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram.
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
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Great! Now we can finally be grouped into those snotty Orange County Republicans who turn up their noses at those of us living in "poor Long Beach."
Jeff,
You do know that it is a "Santa Ana" postmark, don't you?
This is a city in Orange County where Democrats outnumber Republicans and Latinos are over 75% of the populace.
Nothing wrong with those demographics at all, just how Santa Ana has developed over the years.
Hey Dave,
Don't you know how to read?
I'm sure he knows that Santa Ana is in Orange County.
the sentence "... being sent to Orange County and will be stamped "Santa Ana"" tells you Santa Ana is in Orange County.
I'm not sure what demographics have to do with this story.
I think the point is that Long Beach is the 35th. largest city in the United States and it no longer has a postmark.