Here’s the scoop, per the Philadelphia City Paper:
The reporter was quite polite and left out the part where some of the balloons and their letters got tangled in Christmas lights piteously, like something out of a Fritz Lang movie, except it was sunny out and nobody got upset or anything.
phillytyper 
It looks great. You’ve probably seen that the story was picked up on Welcome to the Typosphere and Typewriter Heaven.
Well – with all due respect Mr McGettigan clearly was not informed about the latest findings of Mr Polt that some typewriters are bi-puropse machines… 😉
Er, “bi-purpose” ? Which is the second one? Hedge against the collapse of the dollar? Emergency boat anchor? Dang, please forward me that second use so that I can double my collection’s utility!
The answer is on the second postcard here:
http://writingball.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-great-postcard-giveaway.html
🙂