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Through the years, a person has had to be deceased before their face appeared on a stamp, [1] though the USPS will document that a stamp has commemorated people, living or deceased, without including their actual face on the stamp – such as the image of a yellow submarine from the 1969 eponymous album cover shown on the 1999 stamp [2 ...
Since the punched perforations would distract the visual continuity of the design, [2] the team decided to go for the self-adhesive format with serpentine die cutting for the individual stamps. [2] Each sheet consisted of a large panoramic image of a U.S. geographical region , [ 8 ] with the region's flora and fauna clearly visible.
Descriptive text regarding each of the trains was listed on the gummed side of each stamp. [2] [3] At the same time, the USPS offered for sale a booklet of "20 U.S. Postal Service Ready-To-Mail Stamped Postal Cards" which contained four sets of the five paintings.
You can track a USPS money order using the Postal Service’s “Check Money Order Status” tool. You’ll need the following information from the money order: Serial number
The Elvis Presley Forever stamp is a forever postage stamp released as a part of the Music Icons series issued by the United States Postal Service. It features Presley in a 1955 black and white photograph taken by William Speer. The design created by Antonio Alcalá and Leslie Badani also features a golden crown and the signature of Presley on ...
The Stamp Out Breast Cancer Act (Public Law 105–41) resulted from the work of advocates for breast cancer research. This legislation led to the United States Postal Service's issuance of a new first-class stamp, the Breast Cancer Research Stamp, that can be purchased on a voluntary basis by the public.
The Advanced Facer Canceller System (AFCS) is an electro-mechanical mail handling system. A high-speed machine used by the US Postal Service to cull, face, and cancel letter mail through a series of automated operations.
The hand-press known as No. 3 was used to print the stamps using lithography. To print, a lithographic stone was placed on the bed of the printer, moistened with water, inked, and covered with paper. The stone was then run through the press and past a blade, which pressed the stamp images onto the paper. [19]