Cynor Bags on Woodstock’s Route 47 Mailboxes

Hanging on mailbox flags two Sunday’s ago in Woodstock were these clear plastic bag with Tom Cynor for McHenry County State’s Attorney showing.

Some have wondered if hanging political campaign bags on mailbox flags is legal.

I don’ know, but I vividly remember one of the first days I went door-to-door during my 1966 Republican campaign for McHenry County Treasurer.

I think it was in Wonder Lake. It was a hilly area.

I got a bill from the post office up there for postage for each of the pieces of literature one mailman found in mailboxes later that day.

I had to pay postage for each one and they didn’t even deliver them. They were tossed in the garbage can.

It certainly taught me a lesson.

That year plastic bag deliveries of advertising were being made every week.

The delivery company had tacked something on every mailbox post where the bags could be hung.

On election day whatever was being delivered was stuffed into a bag with my name, the office I was running for and an elephant. The printer screwed up the design a bit, but I remember driving down McHenry Avenue and there was a “Skinner for Treasurer” bag on every mailbox.

I’ve been told that a candidate has to make 7-8 “impressions” before a voter takes notice that he or she is running for office. I wonder how may impressions those bags counted for.


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