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A first look at the 2014 US Postcard Rate Stamp featuring a Hummingbird:  http://uspsstamps.com/stamps/hummingbirdTalk about "artistic license", I was a little taken back by this comment of the stamp description as referenced on USPS Facebook: Quote:
You probably don't recognize the exact species shown on the stamp. That's because illustrator Nancy Stahl used photographs of several different hummingbird species to create the stamp art. |
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This will be one that a topical theme will fit. Will look forward to it coming out.
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I'm anxious for the release date. I think that this year I'm going to be a little more selective in my topical FDC's
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My guess for a release date is late January or early February. The new postcard rate will increase on 1/26/14 and therefore post offices will have to come up with a lot of 1c makeup stamps if they don't get the new postcard rate stamps into production at or near the rate increase date.
(I could never understand why the USPS can make Forever stamps for first class mail and Global Forever stamps for international mail, but they can't do it for the postcard rate stamps. Maybe it has to do with public confusion over "Forever" stamps as there would be those that would place a postcard rate stamp on a first class mail piece and the post office would lose money?) |
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wt1: on 3/8/2013 the USPS did issue a Forever Post Card and Reply card from Middleburg VA. |
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Acording to USPS - On February 7, 2014, in Kansas City, Missouri, the U.S. Postal ServiceŽ will issue a 34-cent Hummingbird stamp, (the new postcard rate stamp), in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 117200) and the other in a coil of 100 (Item 774600) produced by Ashton Potter. The stamp goes on sale nationwide February 7, 2014. The stamp will feature a blue-tinted, highly stylized, digital image of a hummingbird, a type of bird that uses its extra long bill and tongue to sip nectar from tubular flowers. Nancy Stahl illustrated the stamp, under the direction of Carl T. Herrman.
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Posted 12/11/2013 1:13 pm
