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Archive for 2006/11


Stamps can now be issued 5 years after death

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Postmaster General Jack Potter announced after the postal board meeting that the waiting period for stamps to be issued after the death of a notable person would now be 5 years instead of the previous 10 years. Potter said […]

Inverted Jenny used on mail?

There is a story circulating around on the Internet that comes straight out of the movie “Brewster’s Millions”. Apparently, some fool has used an Inverted Jenny to mail in his absentee ballot in Florida. The stamp has reportedly been canceled, and is now in storage and destined to be destroyed along with all the other […]

Tawain Issue Scenery Stamps

Today Tawain issues four stamps relating to the beautiful scenery of this country. These stamps are available today, November 11 2006. As well as single issue, the stamps are can be obtained in FDC, Special Folder, Loose-leaf, Maximum, Precancelled versions.

Featured are: Jhongshan Building which is located in Yangmingshan National Park. This facility is a work of […]

Busy Day For Denmark Stamps

Today, November 10 2006, is a very busy day for stamp releases by Post Danmark. Both definitives and commermoratives are being issued in a variety of formats. Single stamp, mini sheet, and FDC’s can be purchased for most of these issues.

Definitives There are two definitive stamps being released with the image of Queen Margrethe II. One […]

Canada Christmas

It it is getting to be that time…Christmas! Unfortunately, I was so wrapped up in holiday planning I nearly forgot Canada Posts Christmas stamp releases. I hope this doesn’t put me on Santa’s bad list.

Canada Post released their set of Christmas/Holiday stamps on November 1st of this year. In all there are four different stamps […]

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