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Founded in 1996, [4] Stamps.com was created under the name StampMaster by Jim McDermott, Ari Engelberg, and Jeff Green, who at the time were MBA graduate students at UCLA. [5] [6] StampMaster was among the first companies to obtain approval from the United States Postal Service for beta testing and introducing Internet postage to the market.
The Rural Free Delivery: Frank L. Long: 1939 former post office is now the Morehead Municipal Building Morganfield: Rural Free Delivery: Bert Mullins: 1939 Pineville: Kentucky Mountain Mail En Route: Edward Fern: 1942 Princeton: Kentucky Tobacco Field: Robert C. Purdy: 1938 Williamsburg: Floating Horses Down the Cumberland River: Alios Fabry: 1939
The sheets were designed by Ethel Kessler [2] and illustrated by artist John D. Dawson [8] [9] for the USPS. [10] [11] The original idea for the series, conceived 1996, [2] was for a set of four American desert stamps. [2] This was inspired by the success of Desert Plants commemorative stamps released in 1981. [2]
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 First Class mail by air on a routine basis. [3] [4] All post-1977 United States stamp images are copyright of USPS. [5]
The 2020 United States Postal Service crisis was a series of events that caused backlogs and delays in the delivery of mail by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The crisis stems primarily from changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shortly after taking office in June 2020.
The Free Stamp is an outdoor sculpture located in Willard Park. Created by Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen , it has been called the "world's largest rubber stamp ". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The dimensions of the sculpture are 28 ft 10 in (8.79 m) by 26 ft (7.9 m) by 49 ft (15 m). [ 4 ]
The aim was to ensure that in all its member nations, stamps for given classes of mail would appear in the same colors. Accordingly, U.S. 1¢ stamps (postcards) were now green and 5¢ stamps (international mail) were now blue, while 2¢ stamps remained red.
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.