USPS Yearbook Will Not Have A Jimi Hendrix Page

Another first: Not only will the USPS Yearbook have the die cut version of the Circus Souvenir Sheet, but Linn's has now informed us that it will NOT include a chapter on the Jimi Hendrix Stamp, as the USPS could not secure permission to do so:

http://linns.com/news/breaking-stam...SPS-yearbook

It seems to me this makes the Yearbook less relevant as a stand-alone collectible.

Yes one purpose at least to me was to buy and have a nice book containing the years issues. Hence the name stamp yearbook, right? Seems USPS, having had the rights to issue the stamp, should also have secured the rights to put the stamp in the yearbook with any associated images. Seems like big miss on the usps as well as the Hendrix trust.

Going forward the rights for yearbook usage should be secured with the initial print rights. How many yearbook orders will be returned?

I didn't know people actually "collect" yearbooks. Not a single person among my stamp-collecting friends does.

This is the first year I am buying the yearbook--to get the circus sheet of course.

I think many people purchase the year book to get the stamps at one time for their collection and simply put the book on the shelf. I have years of the empty books and folders.

My guess is that the average yearbook buyer is a casual collector, for which the yearbook represents a fairly significant piece of their collecting budget and activity for the year. I'm just going off a hunch, but my guess is that "serious" collectors - those who spend significant time and money on their collections and keep up with new issues and what's currently happening in the hobby - buy very few yearbooks. My hunch about many yearbook buyers is that, for many of them, the yearbook is basically their only purchase of new, mint US stamps for their collection during the year. I really have no data to back that up so I could be completely off base, but I'm guessing the yearbook is designed towards and appeals to the very casual collector.

There should be a lot of aftermarket 2014 yearbooks, less stamps, for sale for $5 - $10 from people who just wanted the souvenir sheet.

Once or twice a year I stop in the post office and pick up a few recent issues. Other than that I do buy the yearbook to get the majority of the stamps at once and put the empty book in the closet after flipping through it once.

It used to be a nice way to get the odd sized mounts with the stamps but a few years ago they changed to clear mounts from black so I don't use their mounts any more :(

Not that I really care, but why wasn't this permission secured when the Hendrix stamp was in development? Surely someone was looking ahead to the yearbook?

As an aside, it seems really petty for the Hendrix estate to go to such lengths.

I started to buy the yearbook just last year as it just got too difficult (read almost impossible) to buy a plate block of six at my local PO and I live in a big city. I collected PB's and a single for the album and one for stock. Not that I retired I cut back on spending and will still have to find a few not in the yearbook.

Doug