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The release of the stamp was accompanied by a hit compilation album, Elvis Forever, sold through post offices around the United States and on the internet. [3] The first stamps, and earliest known use (EKU), were purchased August 10, 2015 at the Mason, Tennessee post office by stamp collector David Saks. [4] [5] [6]
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 top right stamp from this block has never been found; the two left stamps surfaced in the 1970s as single copies offered in auction catalogues and were recovered by the FBI, although they had been camouflaged by minor mutilation: the portions of the right-edge perforations on which parts of the guide line were originally visible had been ...
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 ...
[1] [2] Indeed, the balance had now shifted somewhat; of the ten stamps issued in 1870, only four offered presidential images. Moreover, presidents also appeared on less than half of the denominations in the definitive sets of 1890, 1917, 1954 and 1965, while occupying only a slight majority of values in the definitive issues of 1894–1898 ...
For many years, a number of branches (locals) of the NALC had collected food for the needy as part of their community service effort. The national, coordinated effort by the NALC to help fight hunger in America grew out of discussions in 1991 by a number of leaders at the time, including NALC President Vincent R. Sombrotto, AFL-CIO Community Services Director Joseph Velasquez, USPS Postmaster ...
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.
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.