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  2. Penny Black - Wikipedia

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    The sheets, printed by Perkins Bacon, consisted of 240 stamps in 20 rows of 12 columns. One full sheet cost 240 pence or one pound; one row of 12 stamps cost a shilling. As the name suggests, the stamp was printed in black ink. A two penny stamp printed in blue and covering the double-letter rate (up to 1 oz or 28 g) was issued on 8 May 1840.

  3. Celebrate the Century - Wikipedia

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    Celebrate the Century is a series of postage stamps made by the United States Postal Service featuring images recalling various important events in the 20th century in the United States. [8] Ten of these sheets were issued, with each sheet depicting events of one decade of the 20th century, from the 1900s to 1990s. [8][9] Fifteen stamps were embedded into each sheet. [8] For the first eight ...

  4. After two stamp hikes, the USPS lost nearly $10 billion in 2024

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    The USPS has raised postage rates twice in 2024, with a two-cent per stamp increase in January and a second boost in July, which raised the cost of a Forever stamp to 73 cents.

  5. US Postal Service hikes stamp prices again. Here’s how much ...

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    The new mailing prices, announced by the Postal Regulatory Commission in June and approved by the governors of the U.S. Postal Service, raises prices more than 6% — noting it’s lower than U.S ...

  6. List of United States airmail stamps - Wikipedia

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    Domestic U.S. Air Mail was established as a new class of mail service by the United States Post Office Department (POD) on May 15, 1918, with the inauguration of the Washington–Philadelphia–New York route. Special postage stamps were issued for use with this service. [1] Domestic air mail became obsolete in 1975, and international air mail [2] in 1995, when the USPS began transporting ...

  7. Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive - Wikipedia

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    The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is a charitable initiative conducted by the United States Postal Service, National Rural Letter Carriers' Association & National Association of Letter Carriers in the United States to make significant donations of food to organizations serving needy persons.

  8. Nature of America - Wikipedia

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    Nature of America is a series of twelve self-adhesive stamp sheets that the United States Postal Service released annually between 1999 and 2010 starting with the Sonoran Desert sheet [3][5] and ending with the Hawaiian Rain Forest Sheet. [6][7] Like the Celebrate the Century stamp series, these were printed on large sheets 9"x8¾" (233mm x 171mm), [5] but differed from the former in that they ...

  9. United States Postal Savings System - Wikipedia

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    A certificate of a $5 deposit in the United States Postal Savings System issued on September 10, 1932 The United States Postal Savings System was a postal savings system signed into law by President William Howard Taft and operated by the United States Post Office Department, predecessor of the United States Postal Service, from January 1, 1911, until July 1, 1967. [1][2]