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Article: Stamp-collecting news and notes.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2003
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Byline: Dominic Sama
The U.S. Postal Service has come up with a simple method of selling unsold some stamps: reissue the stamp a year later.
The opportunity's not available for stamps commemorating a onetime event such as the centennial of a person or organization.
But it's perfect if the event is an annual repeat like Christmas.
On Oct. 23, the postal service reissued a 37-cent religious-theme stamp reproducing Dutchman Jan Gossaert's "Virgin and Child" (circa 1520). The agency also issued a block of four contemporary stamps of whimsical images of Santa Claus and reindeer.
The Gossaert stamp was issued in 2002, with the ...