Inauguration Of US Postal Service - July 1, 1971

Two covers I have saved over the years.

Greg

I always liked those issues! So colorful and busy looking. Great eye appeal in my humble opinion! Congrats.

Thanks for sharing and welcome aboard. I've noticed a lot of new members.

As to the first cover posted (USPS Emblem - Scott #1396) this web site has a search function that identifies virtually all of the postmarks and their specific value, as some are worth more than others, although most have only nominal value. Unique to this issue was that every post office in the US cancelled these stamps on the first day of issue, so there are something upwards of 33,000 different postmarks available for this stamp:

http://www.remcatalog.com/Default.aspx

The stamps for the second cover pictured above were also released nationwide on the same day, but in my experience, unofficial FDCs from different towns of this issue are very rare. In 10 years of looking, I have seen maybe 1 or 2. Anybody have any...would love to see some scans.

Oh, sorry...meant to add this link to more information on this issue.

http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&tid=2034485