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  2. U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps - Wikipedia

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    On October 5, 1964, the U.S. Post Office issued a postage stamp commemorating Robert Goddard. The stamp depicts an image of Goddard next to a rocket launching from the Kennedy Space Center. The Post Office released the stamp issues at a ceremony held in New Mexico. Goddard's wife, Esther Goddard, attended the ceremony.

  3. United States airmail service - Wikipedia

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    The first official experiment at flying air mail to be made under the aegis of the United States Post Office Department took place on September 23, 1911, on the first day of an International Air Meet sponsored by The Nassau Aviation Corporation of Long Island, when pilot Earle L. Ovington flew 640 letters and 1,280 postcards from the Aero Club of New York's airfield located on Nassau Boulevard ...

  4. USPS Forever Stamps Really Last Forever – Stock Up Now Before ...

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    The United States Postal Service announced plans to raise the price of Forever stamps and other postage for 2023. Upon approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission, USPS says the cost of first ...

  5. Postal marking - Wikipedia

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    This 1953 cover has a normal postmark and two French service markings. A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. The most common types are postmarks and cancellations; almost every letter will have those.

  6. Owney (dog) - Wikipedia

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    Owney (ca. 1887 – June 11, 1897) was a terrier mix [1] adopted in the United States as a postal mascot by the Albany, New York, post office about 1888.The Albany mail professionals recommended the dog to their Railway Mail Service colleagues, and he became a nationwide mascot for nine years (1888–1897). [2]

  7. Cheryl Ganz - Wikipedia

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    Ganz has been a collector from an early age, collecting, stamps, coins, seashells but as a teenager became interested in Zeppelins and mail carried on the airships. [4]In October 2005 Ganz joined the staff of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington and from January 2007 until February 2014 she was its chief curator.

  8. Transportation coils - Wikipedia

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    Canoe, 5 cents, plate number S11. The Transportation coils series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service between 1981 and 1995. Officially dubbed the "Transportation Issue" or "Transportation Series", they have come to be called the "transportation coils" because all of the denominations were issued in coil stamp format. [1]

  9. Mythology of Benjamin Banneker - Wikipedia

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    Further, according to an April 21, 1791, news report of the dedication ceremony for the first boundary stone (the south cornerstone), it was Andrew Ellicott who ″ascertained the precise point from which the first line of the district was to proceed". The news report did not mention Banneker's name. [86]