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  2. Inverted Jenny - Wikipedia

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    As covered in Linn's Stamp News, on January 12, 2008, StampWants.com (an online marketplace for stamps, now known as bidStart.com) gave away an inverted Jenny, after a year-long promotion the company ran. This represented the most expensive stamp ever given away in any sort of promotion.

  3. Distinguished Americans series - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] In 2011, with the Oveta Culp Hobby stamp, the series went to a larger format with full color images and colored backgrounds. [2] [5] The 2004 Rudolph stamp is the only one in the series to have been issued in both a sheet (pane) and booklet format. [6] Both the 2001 Caraway issue and the 2002–2003 Ferber issues have perforation ...

  4. SubTropolis - Wikipedia

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    The interior of SubTropolis. SubTropolis is a business complex located inside of a 55,000,000-square-foot (5,100,000 m 2), 1,260-acre (5.1 km 2) mine in the bluffs north of the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri.

  5. Nature of America - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Louis DeJoy - Wikipedia

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    New Breed was a United States Postal Service (USPS) contractor for over 25 years, providing shipping logistics support to USPS mail processing facilities; [11] [12] [13] specifically, NBC News reported that the company was contracted to provide a pilot mail transport equipment service center in Greensboro, North Carolina. [14]

  7. Cancellation (mail) - Wikipedia

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    Many stamps are rarer, and consequently much more expensive, in unused condition, such as the Penny Black, which in 1999, catalogued for $1,900 mint and $110 used. [22] The reverse is true for some stamps, such as the hyperinflation stamps of Germany, which may be worth many times more if genuinely postally used. [23]

  8. United States post office murals - Wikipedia

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    Progress of Industry (1934) by Charles W. Ward, at the Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Trenton, New Jersey. United States post office murals are notable examples of New Deal art produced during the years 1934–1943.

  9. Postage stamps and postal history of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Mexico's stamps were printed in one or two colors until the stamps commemorating the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City in 1968, which were the first multicolored stamps issued by Mexico. These stamp issues included several series of stamps with common design elements which were added to over a period of time, especially as inflation ...