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  2. List of United States airmail stamps - Wikipedia

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    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] Scott cataloged stamps received a "C" designation for airmail issues beginning in 1940. Designated for ...

  3. Celebrate the Century - Wikipedia

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    The fifteen stamps were printed at an angle of 8°, [11] the horizontal perforations ran from the stamps up to the edge of sheet. The stamps were arranged on the sheets in four rows, and nested in arrangements unique to each sheet. An area was devoted to the description of the decade as depicted by the stamps on it.

  4. 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 ...

  5. USPS announces Betty White stamp will be released in March - AOL

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    The USPS also said it plans to release a stamp to honor pianist and composer Allen Toussaint, who died in 2015 at the age of 77, as well as a number of other new designs featuring artwork and ...

  6. USPS suspends mail to Canada due to Canada Post worker ... - AOL

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    PLATTSBURGH — Mail service to Canada has been disrupted by a national Canadian postal strike. The disruption is likely to have some kind of impact on local businesses that are from Canada as ...

  7. List of most expensive philatelic items - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1] [2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2024.

  8. 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]

  9. List of artworks on stamps of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Scenes from American history, famous Americans, and traditional Christmas images are postage stamp themes frequently employing original artwork. The main references for the list are: National Postal Museum online database "Arago: Philately", [1] the Colnect Worldwide Stamp Catalog, [2] and the US Stamp Gallery. [3]