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- <text id=91TT0733>
- <title>
- Apr. 08, 1991: American Notes:Stamps
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 08, 1991 The Simple Life
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- STAMPS
- Not Made In the U.S.A.
- </hdr><body>
- <p> What could be more all-American than a U.S. postage stamp
- series that features the faces of great Americans? Almost
- anything. In a move that stirred outrage among patriotic
- philatelists, the U.S. Postal Service disclosed last week that
- two issues from the series will be printed in Canada. This marks
- the first time U.S. postage will be printed abroad. One stamp
- bears the likeness of the late New Mexico Senator Dennis Chavez.
- The other depicts former Chief Justice Earl Warren.
- </p>
- <p> The work moved north after the Postal Service decided to
- farm out the job to Stamp Venturers of Fairfax, Va. The firm,
- in turn, apparently decided that no printing company in the
- U.S. could perform the work. But patriots, take heart! The
- stamps will be printed on American-made paper.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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