Just read an article in Linn's that I found somewhat disturbing regarding the Major League All-Stars issue to be released this year. The article indicated that "now the Postal Service is tentatively planning additional issues that will honor each player on his own pane of stamps." In other words, there will be the standard pane with all four players represented, and then these other special panes of just the individual players (i.e. 20 Ted Williams stamps) What has me shocked was the further statement that "... the panes featuring the individual baseball players would be distributed regionally in an area closely associated with each player - Boston for the Ted Williams stamp pane for example ..." So if I want that pane or plate block of Ted Williams, there is no chance of me getting it through USPS unless I live somewhere in New England. Linn's added that this had been done at least once before with the Football Coaches issue of 1997. I'm ignorant of the past history of this kind of distribution, but on the face of it it appears to discriminate against many collectors based on nothing more than geographical location. I hope there is someone out there that can explain the logic of this to me.
Posted 04/02/2012 11:02 pm
