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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]
Descriptive text regarding each of the trains was listed on the gummed side of each stamp. [2] [3] At the same time, the USPS offered for sale a booklet of "20 U.S. Postal Service Ready-To-Mail Stamped Postal Cards" which contained four sets of the five paintings.
Betty White’s face will be gracing postage stamps soon!. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced the stamp designs for 2025 on Friday, Nov. 15, revealing that one of the stamps will be a ...
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 ...
A 2004 USPS pamphlet illustrating the 1980 Banneker postage stamp stated that Banneker had "constructed the first wooden striking clock made in America", [124] a statement which also appeared on a web page of the Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum entitled "Early Pioneers". [125]
The design for the 1-cent stamp was originally designated for a never-issued 26-cent stamps. Many of the stamps were issued in mid-November in New York City. At the time, it was usual to have a stamp issuance during the annual stamp show for the American Stamp Dealers Association, which was then held in mid-November in New York City. The March ...
The first official experiment at flying air mail to be made under the aegis of the United States Post Office Department took place on September 23, 1911, on the first day of an International Air Meet sponsored by The Nassau Aviation Corporation of Long Island, when pilot Earle L. Ovington flew 640 letters and 1,280 postcards from the Aero Club of New York's airfield located on Nassau Boulevard ...
Between 2007 and 2016, the USPS lost $62.4 billion; the inspector general of the USPS estimated that $54.8 billion of that (87%) was due to prefunding retiree benefits. [13] By the end of 2019, the USPS had $160.9 billion in debt, due to growth of the Internet, the Great Recession , and prepaying for employee benefits as stipulated in PAEA. [ 14 ]