Thank you for answering.
Since there is no mention of Julie or Lisa in the note I thought that maybe someone could recieve this note sometime prior to their disappearance (on some other occasion that wouldn't necessarily be a running away situation - cause with message so vague it'd only take for the adressee to not know about the trip to make it make sense (in a way of sheer possibility of this note being written by her, just not on that day).
If it wasn't a thing for other people and Rachel herself to leave car on that parking lot while going somewhere then pretty much all what I was thinking about doesn't make any sense.
I haven't refreshed my knowledge about the case recently but I recall that it's authenticity was widely discussed and that opinions about it varied.
One more theory I had considering possibility of note being faked and envelope being adressed by her would be to consider the possibility of her, sending a Christmas card to her husband prior to their disappearance and later being used to put a fake note in it.
I'm just ending up with more questions, as probably everyone who ever tried to make any sense out of it.
Did anyone ever went as far as to question some of the local philatelists?
Pretty sure that someone with hardcore passion for it could tell if that stamp on the envelope is even real.
I just zoomed it and it strikes me as odd that "4" in 24 looks so neat while all other numbers and letters look so blurry. It's just a copy, not even a picture.
Also that other "4" in "1974" looks like it ran away from the circle... "24" is not in the same line as "2 (...) DEC"...
I may be putting too much into it cause I stared at it for too long, but I never saw that before. Postmarks are usually pretty neat, and as much as I can see online, USPS postmarks are also neatly arranged. No smearing can mess straightness of the lines of text I think.
No postmark I can find online as collective piece for sale has this kind, and this many
anomalies on. It should be relatively easy to get clear if some collector that has postcards and envelopes from 1974 in his possesion ever saw something like that and would consider it normal, or if it's just faked stamp.
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I had so many thoughts about that letter, especially how weird it would be for someone to bet everything on USPS ability to deliver this letter on 24th, not on 26th or even later (I'd guess that post services would became pretty busy around Christmas)...
But I guess all of that would be pretty easy to check in 1974 and 1975, cause then pretty much everyone around would have a lot of letters with postmarks to compare.
Did anyone somewhat close to Rachel worked at post office and possibly grabbed some stamps "for fun", possibly even prior to 1974 would be my wonder.