Probably this will never happen again: an unknown, generous postal associate gifted me a philatelic souvenir!!! A USPS postcard from 1990: "Splash into an ocean of fun: collect stamps. October is National Stamp Collecting Month." Well, to me it's year-round...:)"

This is the face of the large postcard, and the stamps are not the real stamps - just their images.

This is the back of the postcard, with the cool pictorial postmark from 1990, and all 4 stamps from the Marine Mammmals series of 1990.
The fact that I received this item 2 years ago, in my return envelope from the Monterey, California 93940 Post Office, where I have sent my items to get their 2009 pictorial postmark for the Kelp Forest stamps, tells me that it was not a mistake from a postal associate. The 1990 postmark was not available in 2009, so the inclusion of this very nice philatelic souvenir in my envelope has to be an intentional gift.
Thank you very much, anonymous postal worker! :)

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