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To: OKCSubmariner
Here is a picture of one envelope

To me it looks like an older persons handwriting - just my opinion


38 posted on 10/13/2001 9:27:59 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: brigette
To me it looks like an older persons handwriting - just my opinion

Or someone who's used to writing the script of arabic or farsi, perhaps? The plot seems to be thickening.

44 posted on 10/13/2001 9:30:20 PM PDT by republicandiva
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To: brigette
To me it looks like an older persons handwriting..

To me it looks like someone using a non-dominant hand in an attempt to confuse any handwriting analysis...weird..

61 posted on 10/13/2001 9:40:52 PM PDT by gdc314
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To: brigette
It's Patsy Ramsey's block-printing.
75 posted on 10/13/2001 9:52:09 PM PDT by onyx
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To: brigette
"To me it looks like an older persons handwriting"

Have you ever seen an older person's handwriting? My father died at 89. His handwriting -- other than while he was recovering from his TIAs -- was far better than mine. Older people were taught penmanship in school, and their handwriting -- at least in my experience -- tends to flow, and be quite graceful when compared to "younger people's" handwriting.

That said, the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw that picture is that whoever addressed it was using block letters in an attempt to foil handwriting analysis.

The second thing that popped into my mind was that perhaps whoever filled out the address used block characters so as to not foil the OCR scanners at the post offices mail sorting machines?

113 posted on 10/13/2001 10:30:27 PM PDT by Don Joe
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To: brigette
Interesting to note that the writing is in all capital letters.

A person who has not mastered writing in upper and lower case would do something similar. That is a possibility. that indicates to me someone who hasn't learned English writing beyond a very early stage. Someone with perhaps 1 year of learning writing. Perhaps even self-taught. The pen strokes on the letters are not very advanced either.

If it was domestic, it is either a child of 6 or an adult who is either illiterate or doing a fine job of pretending to be illiterate. Anyone doing that fine of a job of pretending to write so primitively is much too intelligent and would have spent way too much time to just be a jokester. More analysis later.

142 posted on 10/13/2001 11:14:20 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket
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To: brigette
It's an American who wrote that envelope. Europeans write their 9s and 7s much differently. I am guessing that when Arabs learn to write Western numerals IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES, they would use the British or French styles. This person was schooled in AMERICA.
148 posted on 10/13/2001 11:24:56 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: brigette
This is written by a left-handed individual as it looks like it was deliberately attempted to cover their handwriting and slopes as it would for a "lefty".
202 posted on 10/14/2001 9:44:42 AM PDT by RasterMaster
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