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Bonus 9-10. 1c coil pair as make-up with 20c stamp on fourth day of 22c one-ounce 1st-class letter rate, Feb. 20 1985. (An earlier 1983 coil-pair use on an underpaid letter during the 20c era is shown as a bonus cover for the 13c Liberty Bell issue.) |
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Bonus 9-11. 1c sheet stamp on one-ounce 1st-class "advertising" letter, Dec. 30, 1980. Underpaid 15c letter rate by 14c. While contents unavailable, this looks like one of the earliest unscrupulous mailings to use low-value phosphor-tagged stamps to mislead the recipient. Such mailings contained a sales pitch for a "special report" that would show the prospect how they, too, could use "1 cent" stamps instead of paying full postage, citing as evidence the fact that the letter was delivered. It was this practice that led the USPS in 1991 to cease the phosphor-tagging of U.S. postage denominated below ten cents, so postal equipment would reject deposited mail without at least ten cents postage. |
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| | Excerpt from USPS Souvenir Page with May 28, 1981 first-day cancel for Great American 17c stamp, supplemented by a 1c coil stamp to meet the first-class letter rate of 18c. USPS policy required that first-day cancels were only to be applied to items bearing the minimum 1st-class postage rate in effect (for letters or postcards, respectively). For USPS-supplied first-day items, the USPS used current (or older) stamps cached in its inventory for these "make-up" purposes when issuing stamps denominated below the current rate (or, they used a multiple of the new stamp). |
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Bonus 9-13. 1c shiny-gum pane of 100 overlaying a dull-gum pane of 100 (top two rows beyond image). The shiny-gum pane's inked design is aligned (at bottom right) with the dull-gum pane's design beneath. By the tenth row (bottom-right), the shiny-gum pane is evidently narrower. (Use the "enlarge" icon at bottom-right of image presented after clicking on image at left, for best view.) |
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Contents (c) 2009,
Ronald Blanks. Contact by e-mail: rblanks_stamps@yahoo.com |
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