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the letter could heave been mailed at any of the weried maki drops within the postal carrier crea of Onkdele or at the msin Pest Office anytime between the late afternoon hours on Fridey ard the late afternoon hours om Saturday. Re advised the Oakdale Post Office is closed on Saturdays, but. the front deor is open for mil drop at 6:30 a.m. The mail deposited at other drop Locations in O:kdale is not nemelly brought £6 the Post Offie cancellation until afternoon. Os Saturdey, 13/27/71, cancelled «11 the mail in the main drop and changed the cancellation stamp to pom. ek about 11:30 a.m. prior te going to lunch. Prom records, advised that « total of 2,267 individiel pieces ef mail were machine ceneelled st O-kdale on 11/27/71, and chovt 1/3 of this or epprozimataly 750 pieces would have bean. from the main Post OFice madd arop. The remainder would have bean brought in by the carriers during the dey. [had no knowledge of who might have welled the letter and adviced he knows of ne ene who might have observed the person who malied the letter, the “Modesto Bee", hed a wite sexviae s omvised on i271, thet the cuteut printine comprt sing the sonitents ef the latter came from the ASA final edition of the Tay oe/vhe "Medesto Bao, Comparison of letter spacings, type fonts, olin marks, etc. correspond exactly © with the printinus in the letter. indiested that this edition is the Modesto home edition, first copies of which meach the retail box in front of the Nodesto Bee Bullding in Modesto et 2:30 p.m. This edition reaches the Modeste newsbays and distributers about 4:30 p.m. Thia edition is net sent te the Oakdale sres, By separate communication, « copy of this news- paper has been directed to the FRI Laboratory for comparison with the original note. ele) D7C b6 b7c ~ DB Cooper-2946