Global Forever Stamps

IBFS:

FYI: we talked (and talked and talked) about the round global forever stamp...
https://goscf.com/t/29097

Kirk

Yes but no scan of a cover yet!



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St. Paul, May 6, 2013

A great looking stamp.

Good job, LordD.

As an Airmail Etiquette collector, the USPS PAR AVION/AIRMAIL label shown in the previous scan looks different (smaller) than the ones I've seen before. Maybe a new/revised label to look out for?

Sorry Kirk...now that I think about it, I should have done a search for this one.



-IBFS

No prom IBFS. I didn't mean it that way. I just remember us "debating" the round stamp.

I like it; some don't.

Kirk

I can take it or leave it.


-IBFS

You can't see the die cuts, but here is the 2014 version. A little more colorful. Living here in California, I hope the various color patterns are pointing to an El Nino. We could really use the rain.

I'll refrain from what I think about the USPS buying into the global warming cultus (especially as this is my first post, and I should not get off on the wrong foot here). So, a more technical question. Does the "global forever" series formally mark the end of the US air postal stamps? I recently returned to collecting after a hiatus of about a decade. My interest is in US airmails and aviation themed regular issues. When I left off collecting about 2003, US airmails were at C137. Between then and now, they went to C150. Although I've upgraded my collection to C150, except for the small jet silhouette on these later issues, making them technically "air post" stamps, there's nothing particularly interesting to me about them.

I'm just curious is all: was C150 is the end of the line?

There was a time when Air Mail was the exception. Now it is the rule. It seems natural to me that the specific "Air Mail" class of postal service should come to be phased out. Maybe some day an even better form of moving mail and packages will come along, and will have it's own postal class.

Given that we have a developed drone planes, I don't see why we need people to be in the planes that deliver the mail.

Once we develop and perfect the space elevator, we might have a "Space Elevator" rate (same day service globally) or "Space Drop Rate".

Maybe it will be deemed safer and more economical to send cargo via pneumatic tubes big enough to hold entire containers. Then there could be a "Pneumatic - 4 hour rate" between major eastern seaboard cities in the US and Europe.

Transcontinental trains accross the US travelling in excess of 300 miles an hour might also engender a new postal rate.

Times change. So do climates. :D

blcjr: While I've seen no official comment on this topic, everything I have read leads me to believe that C150 was, indeed, the end of the line for US Airmails. The case has been made elsewhere that the Scenic American Landscape series didn't really belong with the Airmails, but instead should have been located in the Postage section. An alternative, I suppose, could have been a separate section for international rate stamps ... the Scenic Landscapes & the Global Forevers could then have resided together in their own section. Instead, we will forever have the Global Forevers sprinkled through the regular postage area.

Some previous comments on the subject are included in this thread:

https://goscf.com/t/29350

I like the 2014 better than the 2013.


-IBFS