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What could be more all-American than a U.S. postage stamp series that features the faces of great Americans? Almost anything. In a move that stirred outrage among patriotic philatelists, the U.S. Postal Service disclosed last week that two issues from the series will be printed in Canada. This marks the first time U.S. postage will be printed abroad. One stamp bears the likeness of the late New Mexico Senator Dennis Chavez. The other depicts former Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...work moved north after the Postal Service decided to farm out the job to Stamp Venturers of Fairfax, Va. The firm, in turn, apparently decided that no printing company in the U.S. could perform the work. But patriots, take heart! The stamps will be printed on American-made paper...
...Concord State, they stamp your hand so they can identify you, and so you can get out after the game," Caulfield said. "The whole time I was playing I was hoping my sweat wouldn't wipe...
...call the Garden a postage stamp," former Harvard Coach Bill Cleary '56 said. "You really can tell the difference when you practice there. As a coach at Eight Center, you never have to worry about getting hit by pucks or getting run into by players. There it's just terrible...
...take a step forward and take a step back. We are concerned because eventually the American people will pay that. It's just a stamp tax. And when we raise postage rates to accommodate that, people say, "Oh, this idiotic, inefficient, unfeeling, bureaucratic Postal Service!" We can't go out and teach civics to 250 million people. In 1991 our budget was to make $1.2 billion. Now with this legislation we lose $1 billion. For the next rate increase it means more, sooner...