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A collection of postage stamps designed by type designers. (via do)
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Eames stamps
The Charles and Ray Eames stamps are available for your USPS mailing pleasure. (thx, doug)
Some really nice looking stamps done in
Some really nice looking stamps done in the style of Otl Aicher.
The work of Charles and Ray Eames
The work of Charles and Ray Eames will be honored with a set of 16 US stamps later this year. (via chris glass)
Are the USPS’s “forever” stamps a good
Are the USPS’s “forever” stamps a good deal for the consumer? “Absolutely not.” Stamp prices increase more slowly than the inflation rate so stamps are continually getting cheaper.
Remember the whole rare stamp on a
Remember the whole rare stamp on a Florida absentee ballot thing? Turns out it was a fake. “The give-away signs included an incorrect number of border perforations, the stamp’s thickness and its colour.” (thx, m)
A Florida voter sent in their absentee
A Florida voter sent in their absentee ballot with an extremely rare stamp, the 1918 Inverted Jenny. Two other stamps from the 30s and 40s were on the envelope as well. It looks like the stamps are sealed away with other voting ballots by law for 22 months.
Update: My skeptical friend David says this almost certainly has to be a hoax. “They used stamps.com or something to print these counterfeit images, knowing the votes would be locked up by law. What are even the mathematical chances that those three stamps are in the same place, and that the person who used them (all three) didn’t know how valuable they were?” I am eagerly awaiting the follow-up to this in 22 months…I put an item in my calendar for September 5, 2008 reminding me to poke around for news at that time.
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