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The world's greatest expert on postal markings is probably in the private sector and works for a philatelic brokerage that's owned by the heirs to Joe Bonano.

Anything else you want to know? As with anything philatelic, whether stamps, or prepaid envelopes, markings, cancellations of all kinds, and date stamps of all kinds and conditions ARE collectables ~ and there's a market ~ and there are big bucks behind all of them ~ and the mob. They've been investing in stamps, et al, for well more than a century primarily because they are portable and there are many of them worth many times their weight in gold.

Actually, criminal elements have been investing in stamps since block printing was invented in China/Korea many centuries ago. There's even a market in Chinese buttons ~ which were coins with holes in them before being sewn into clothing.

One thing I'm sure of is that the mob has had its guys on top of this issue and they have a much better take on whether or not Obama's birth certificate are authentic. They, themselves, get into the documents business from time to time to bring in mechanics. Or, to travel somewhere else themselves.

I have names ~ folks who had a parent or an uncle, or whatever, doing history work for the mob, and if you want to talk to them, they might talk to you ~ but it'll take money.

My expertise is sufficient to tell me that old funky stuff was in use in Hawaii when I first joined USPS and it continued to be in use when I retired 40 years later, so broken junk being used as a round dater on a different agency's paper really isn't a surprise.

All a round dater of any kind tells you is that on that date, assuming it was correct, the piece of paper was inside a post office. Stressing that meaning any further is not only risky, no one will support you. As bad as it is it looks 'postal' ~ so, absent any other evidence, I'd say someone grabbed the dater out of a box on that date and stamped that piece of paper. If we could find that particular dater we could probably sell it as a desirable philatelic related collectable for the big bucks ~ this is the dater that stamped Obama's draft notice ~ there are dozens of exceedingly wealthy Democrats who would pay for it.