Postmaster’s Labyrinth

Blue Maze Security Envelope Pattern

KINGDOM: Stationery (stationeria)

PHYLUM: Envelope (envelopia)

CLASS: Security (obscurifera)

ORDER: Geometric (geometrica)

FAMILY: Repetitive (formata)

GENUS: Lines (lineata)

SPECIES: Blue (BLU)

NUMBER: 01

CONTRIBUTOR: Joseph King

COMMON NAME: Postmaster’s Labyrinth

LATIN NAME: Nuntium mittentis labyrinthum

CODE NAME: GEO_RPT_LINE_BLU_001_JK.jpg

SOURCE: Joseph King – Flickr

FIELD NOTES:

Few specimens embody structural paranoia as elegantly as the blue maze security envelope. Titled Postmaster’s Labyrinth (Latin: Nuntium mittentis labyrinthum), this pattern operates like a vault of ink: a printed maze where meaning is meant to go missing.

Visual Topography and Function

The genus lineata is known for its obsession with linearity, but here those lines fold into corridors—dizzying, recursive, and sometimes nonsensical. This particular envelope feels like a bureaucratic minotaur’s dream: all routes, no exits. The repetition is exacting, but never kind. It mirrors the logic of red tape—secure not by secrecy, but by sheer exhaustion.

This specimen bears a pattern of interlocking right angles, each segment harmonizing and clashing in turn. The eye enters eagerly, then wanders without resolution. Unlike other security classes that aim to obscure with noise or flourish, this one traps with discipline. Its rhythm is mathematical; its silence absolute.

Collector’s Commentary

Obscurationist Joseph King rescued this piece from a stack of overlooked correspondence addressed to a defunct government office. He described it as “the quietest thing I’ve ever seen scream.”

Behavioral Traits:

  • Repeating blue linework forming maze-like grid

  • Designed to disorient eye movement and defy optical focus

  • Exemplifies the lineata genus’ reliance on containment through repetition