[muawiyah]

Let me quote Lenin ~ (totally out of context) ~ "Mistakes Were Made".

My basic theory of forms design was that if a mistake can be made it will be made ~ most of the time.

My more advanced theory of forms design assumed that everybody filling one out was UNCONSCIOUS, or if not UNCONSCIOUS, they didn't really care.

Oh, yes, I know those are quite cynical theories, but they are as true today as they were in the days of Sargon of Akkad!

A couple of digits missing in a round dater ~ Ha! We are lucky to have a year in there.

A thought ~ this one wasn't handed in at a post office ~ sure, a standard USPS round date was applied, but by someone else at a different agency ~ e.g. at the mail in location provided by Selective Service itself.

Thought I'd look up their current rules and found that a New York community college had consolidated the current answer. First, you can go to the post office. Second, you can mail in a form. Third, the FSFA office can provide Selective Service with your information ~ ha, ha, apply for a loan, they'll do it for you ~ neat trick.

Or, you can go on the internet.

Way back when I applied I did so at my highschool.

Just guessing here, you had post offices, highschools, mail-ins, college admissions offices, and maybe even other places (military recruiters perhaps) who could accept that form and round date it with postal equipment ~ in this case a USED round dater or worse, one that was broken and simply passed along to some other place also authorized to accept such applications, and then used by someone who didn't know how to set it but made a "good guess".

Look at this website to see how it's done now: http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/finaid/forms/Guides/Selective%20Service.pdf

Current practice almost always reflects prior practice in some degree.

Forgery would be the last thing on my mind.

[rolling_stone]

I'm sorry to see you guessing and "assuming" about a procedure hundreds of thousands of American males are familiar with...those who were required to register in 1980 had two places to register (and only 2), if they were in the US on the days to register it was at a US Post Office, and if they were out of the US it was at an Embassy or Consulate. If you look at the cancellation you can see it is from Honolulu HI Makiki Sta. Its still there under the Lunalilo Freeway. There also is a box that clearly says "Postal Date Stamp & Clerk's Initials" They were also required to present identification and there is a check box for whether they did or not.

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/06/obamas-forged-selective-service.html

As far as the Postal Service no longer using red round date stamps, you are incorrect, they are still being used. The link you posted is concerned with business mailings. How else would a clerk stamp the date on a Certified mail receipt or an irregular size package if not by hand stamp? I have numerous certified receipts red round hand stamped from 2011 and I am sure by April 15, many persons here will avail themselves to that same service.

I do agree with one thing you said, apparently your "assumption" that everyone filling out designing postal forms was UNCONSCIOUS or if not UNCONSCIOUS, they didn't really care......

Since you were apparently a clerk typist or form writer for decades, and not a front office clerk, did know that postal regs call for a 4 digit year stamp on the RDS? How could one have just the last 2 digits of the year but not all 4? How could one have no year as you suggested happened all the time?