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Stamp Me Unaware

Greg Tillotson — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:58:14 +0000

I don’t know where I’ve been, but I just found out today that the price of a stamp is going up a penny tomorrow. And the only way I found out was grocery shopping this morning at my neighborhood Albertsons. Almost every person ahead of me in line was asking for a book of stamps. [...]

Stamps Getting More Expensive Again

Mike Adams — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:30:34 +0000

While the cost of postage will increase by one penny next year, the U.S. Postal Service says that the 46-cent “Forever” stamp will remain valid currency for mailing letters across the country, even as rates get higher. Starting on January 27, Postal Service customers will pay a little more to mail standard one-ounce letters, but [...]

"That's the Wrong Statue of Liberty" and Other Postage Stamp Fails

The Web Guy — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:01:32 +0000

The United States Postal Service just released a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. The only problem is, the Lady Liberty featured in the photo isn’t the one that has spent the last 125 years in New York Harbor, rather it’s a 14-year-old replica which currently sits in front of the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In real life, the casino Statue of Liberty is only half the size of the original. However, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between the two in the photo on the stamp.