Linn’s Stamp News Answering the question of how to identify flat plate and rotary stampsLinn’s Stamp NewsIt was not until 1923 that sheet stamps were intentionally produced by the rotary press. Rotary-produced sheet stamps before that (see Scott 538-546) were made from coil waste, meaning parts of the rotary coil …
Read More »Amazon’s New Checkout-Free Grocery Store Doesn’t Take Food Stamps – Slate Magazine
Slate Magazine Amazon's New Checkout-Free Grocery Store Doesn't Take Food StampsSlate MagazineBut the convenience isn't for everyone: The Amazon Go store doesn't accept food stamps, a customer service representative confirmed Monday morning. That's a letdown you wouldn't have seen mentioned in the giddy coverage of the opening, which has …Amazon …
Read More »New US Flag forever stamp to be issued Feb. 9 flies digital illustration of partially folded flag – Linn’s Stamp News
New US Flag forever stamp to be issued Feb. 9 flies digital illustration of partially folded flagLinn’s Stamp NewsThe Postal Service is not offering smaller stamp quantities for either format. Only one USPS item number has been assigned for the coil roll, regardless of the printer, and only one USPS …
Read More »If the shutdown continues, money for food stamps and school lunches could run out by March – Vox
Vox If the shutdown continues, money for food stamps and school lunches could run out by MarchVoxWith the federal government mired in a shutdown, the US Department of Agriculture announced that funding for food stamps and subsidized school lunches for poor children will run out by the end of February …
Read More »Monday Morning Brief | Cost to collect US stamps of 2017 – Linn’s Stamp News
Monday Morning Brief | Cost to collect US stamps of 2017Linn’s Stamp NewsIf you collect one mint example of each stamp, one of each envelope and one of each postal card, the total cost for 2017 is $95.88. That's almost exactly the same as the cost to collect those individual …
Read More »Postal Service Issues New Priority Mail Express and Priority Mail Stamps – Sierra Sun Times
Sierra Sun Times Postal Service Issues New Priority Mail Express and Priority Mail StampsSierra Sun TimesJanuary 22, 2018 – KANSAS CITY, MO — The U.S. Postal Service issued the new $24.70 Priority Mail Express Sleeping Bear Dunes stamp and the $6.70 Byodo-In Temple Priority Mail stamp on Sunday, Jan. 21. …
Read More »This customer gets a stamp of approval – Virginian-Pilot
This customer gets a stamp of approvalVirginian-PilotAlice Stuck of Carrsville visited a Windsor post office during the holidays. The clerk was working with a customer she appeared to know. The customer then started talking to Stuck and asked her if she was there only to buy stamps; Stuck said yes. …
Read More »Maine Gov. says Trump administration blocks a ban on food stamps for junk food – 13WMAZ
13WMAZ Maine Gov. says Trump administration blocks a ban on food stamps for junk food13WMAZAUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says the Trump administration is blocking his latest effort to prevent the use of food stamps to purchase soda and candy. LePage spokeswoman Julie Rabinowitz said Thursday that …
Read More »“The Stamp is Never Neutral”: Vincent Sardon’s “The Stampographer” – lareviewofbooks
lareviewofbooks “The Stamp is Never Neutral”: Vincent Sardon's “The Stampographer”lareviewofbooks“THE STAMP IS never neutral,” Vincent Sardon tells Richard Kraft and Lisa Pearson in an interview translated by Philippe Aronson and included in Sardon's new book The Stampographer. “It packs a symbolic wallop.” He's right. Think of judges, cops … More: …
Read More »Trump rebuffs LePage on banning soda, candy purchases with food stamps – fiddleheadfocus.com
fiddleheadfocus.com Trump rebuffs LePage on banning soda, candy purchases with food stampsfiddleheadfocus.comThat year, Trump, a Republican who was endorsed by LePage, won the presidency and in February, Maine submitted another waiver request to the more friendly administration. The Fiddlehead Focus / St. John Valley Times is pleased to feature content …
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