Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand stamped. After showing my i.d. my hand was stamped for drinks. They were offering souvenir stamps in the corner, so I got two of those. And then there were these cute little animal stamps...by the time my date dragged me away, my right hand looked like an airmail package from Karachi...
...ensure the authenticity and quality of stamps listed on the exchange, ISEC's staff experts will take possession and verify descriptions before posting sell orders. The price a buyer will pay for a stamp, of course, depends on numerous factors. The famous "Inverted Jenny" from the first U.S. airmail issue in 1918 is especially valued by collectors for one striking error: the airplane is flying upside down...
...airports in North America, Europe and the Pacific. Federal Express of Memphis flies 60 jets delivering small packages overnight. Federal Express is so confident about its ability to maintain service despite the strike that last week it started a $7 million advertising program to launch its new private airmail system that sends letters overnight for $9.95 each...
...since the nation's birth. From Philadelphia in 1793, George Washington wrote out a note in English for Jean Pierre Blanchard so that the French balloonist, on his pioneering flight over the Delaware River, would not panic the New Jersey natives. Thomas Jefferson benefited from early airmail in 1803: a carrier pigeon flew from New York to Washington bearing the good news that Napoleon had agreed to the Louisiana Purchase. Teddy Roosevelt was the first occupant of the White House to fly, even though he was no longer President when he did so. After some difficulty getting through...
...peacock. Now the shock waves have reached Postmaster General William F. Bolger, who last week withdrew all U.S. Olympic commemorative stamps, postcards and envelopes from the market "in support of national policy." Will the Olympic issues become hot collector's items like the 1918 upside-down airmail stamp, or even the less exotic 5? 1967 American Space Twins issue, which still commands $10 for a block of four? Not likely. Some 300 million Olympic stamps were sent to post offices last fall. To reckon their value, philatelic enthusiasts will have to determine how many were sold, saved, licked...