Hi,That's some great detective work. I have one other thing to add: I peeled off the stamp, because it suddenly occurred to me there might be writing underneath.
Indeed, there is. It says, "STAMP HERE HOLBEIN" (minus the quotes)Um... holbein has seven letters, and it translates to 465-2346. So I called it (with 617 area code) and it gives a fast busy for a while and then silence, but it does not hang up. Anyone else want to fool around with this?
Also, if any MIT people are going to the party, feel free to stop by and pick up this card from me beforehand. I won't be making it to the party, because I'm picking Mike Korn up from the airport.
NW61-433 looks to be a dorm room in Random Hall. In case you're interested, I stuck a floor plan on my website at:
http://web.mit.edu/carol/www/NW61_4.pdf Carol On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
The small dashes on the front of the postcard encode the zip code in a form some of the postal sorting equipment uses. Link.<http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/8867C90A424D6DFD86256B4F007ABF5D>I have seen those orange dashes on a lot of mail too. I do not know what they represent, but it is probably some postal thing. So the things of interest that we did not already know from the picture on the web page are: These seven boxes. Could they be for a telephone number? The Wilma Rudolph stamp. The Washington DC postmark. This could go along with the mission: impossible theme. The return address at NW61-433, somewhere in Random Hall. Anybody know what is there or visited the place? They can't possibly be having their headquarters during the hunt way out there, but it might just be a real address where one of the hunt organizers lives, and they really wanted to know that the cards got through (except for the fact that since the card got to us so late, if they get returned they will come back to them too late). Otherwise it seems to me to be a clue. Google didn't know anything about the location except some files that appear to be ethernet wiring logs for the campus. Joe On 1/12/06, Carol A Meyers <carol mit edu> wrote:Sure. The scanning equipment in this office isn't great, but I did the best I could. The only thing I was able to figure out so far is that the pattern of short and long dashes at the bottom of the front part is exactly the same as that on an unrelated letter I got at the same time. So that's not anything special. I don't know about the orange dashes on the back. They might just be a postal thing. My unrelated mail has orange dashes on it too, but they are slightly different. Carol Quoting Sofiya Vasina <sofiya sonic net>:Any chance of getting the front scanned in (or taking a digital picture)andposting it for all to see? With those empty red squares it sounds likeapuzzle, and we might be expected to have it solved before we get ournext"assignment". Sofiya On 1/12/06, Carol A Meyers <carol mit edu> wrote:Hi mystery hunters, I thought I'd let you know that the same postcard on the mystery hunt front page was mailed to me at my office. It was addressed to "The Palindrome Team, c/o Agent Meyers". The reverse of the card looks exactly like the one on the webpage. The front of the card looks more or less like a standard postcard address form, with a few exceptions. Interestingly, it was mailed from Washington, DC on January 3, 2006. There are seven empty red squaresonthe right hand side, which may or may not mean anything. The stamp isaWilma Rudolph postcard stamp. Anyway, I'm sure you can all analyze this tomorrow if you want to. Carol _______________________________________________ Palindrome mailing list Palindrome cosmos phy tufts edu https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/palindrome_______________________________________________ Palindrome mailing list Palindrome cosmos phy tufts edu https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/palindrome