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<text id=91TT0733>
<title>
Apr. 08, 1991: American Notes:Stamps
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<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>
</body></article>
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