Andy Pastuszak
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Dec 22, 2014 5:05:15 GMT
With the great success the USPS has had with the Holy Family and Magi stamps, I think the USPS may have finally stopped with the Madonna and Child series of Christmas stamps. And, thank God they did too. It was getting a bit boring.
I have mentioned this on previous thread and forums, and I think I have an idea which would sell like crazy for the USPS around Christmas time...
It's time they made a Nativity Scene souvenir sheet!
The sheet needs to be consumer friendly, so we can't have a picture that only has stamps over faces on the sheet. It needs to be one huge se-tenant of stamps that together make up a full nativity scene. I think Christians will eat it up. A lot would buy extras, just so they could frame one.
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Post by stampgeezer on Dec 22, 2014 5:30:54 GMT
I like it, but I can imagine the PC crowd would get a bit excited.
Theron
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Andy Pastuszak
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Dec 22, 2014 6:21:08 GMT
They didn't flip out over the Holy Family and Magi stamps. I would fully expect there to still be secular stamps with snowmen and Santa. Even an old world St. Nicholas stamp would be cool.
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philatelia
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Post by philatelia on Dec 22, 2014 16:01:30 GMT
Gosh you are so right - the madonna and child were becoming so very boring.
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Andy Pastuszak
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Dec 22, 2014 21:10:38 GMT
Gosh you are so right - the madonna and child were becoming so very boring. That was the USPS playing it safe. The USPS have issued Hanukkah and Eid stamps before, which are most definitely religious holidays. I don't see what they can't make a religious Christmas stamp. I know we Christians hijacked the holiday from the pagans, but still throwing a religious stamp out there is well within USPS policy.
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Apr 20, 2024 13:39:48 GMT
Well, they won't commemorate this. Last Wednesday at sunrise, same day Copenhagen Borsen went up in flames. A US Postal Service mail truck from Richmond--our principal sorting center ninety minutes west--incinerated itself on the highway. Nobody hurt. No explanation. Gremlins picking on the sick and the weak.
One headline: 'All mail unsalvageable after Wednesday tractor-trailer fire in Norfolk.' Guess it'll be a couple weeks before I can judge if I lost anything. More dramatic pics: Truck carrying mail catches fire on I-64 in Norfolk
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fazeman
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Post by fazeman on Apr 20, 2024 15:23:46 GMT
@kasvik, that I-64 accident happened in my neck of the woods and it's unfortunate that the tractor-trailer burned to the ground. Hopefully, my recent eBay stamp purchases weren't on that trailer.
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angore
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Post by angore on Apr 21, 2024 10:42:02 GMT
I wonder if it contained something hazardous, liquid, or flammable.
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