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37¢ Ornaments (4 Designs)
Folded Vending Booklet of 20
Scott# 3890b,c,d
BK 298
Plate S11111
# 3887
# 3888
# 3889
# 3890
Purple Santa Claus
Green Santa Claus
Blue Santa Claus
Red Santa Claus
3890b - Pane of 4, #3887-3890
3890c - Pane of 6, #3889-3890, 2 each #3887-3888
3890d - Pane of 6, #3887-3888, 2 each #3889-3890
Series Holiday
Issue Date & City November 16, 2004, New York, NY 10199
Nationwide Sale November 17, 2004
Photographer Sally Andersen-Bruce, New Milford, CT
Designer Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Art Director Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Typographer Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Engraver Southern Graphics Systems
Modeler Donald H. Woo
To Press / Initial Impressions Summer, 2004 / 200,990,000 stamps
Process Gravure
Printer Sennett Security Products (SSP)
Printed At American Packaging Corporation, Columbus, WI
Press Rotomek 5, 3000
Processed At Unique Binders, Fredericksburg, VA
Plate Size 480 stamps per revolution
Paper & Gum Type II  / Self-Adhesive
Tagging Type Prephosphored
Die Cut Gauge 10.5 x 10.8 on 2 or 3 sides
Colors Magenta, Yellow, Cyan, Black, White
Image Area (w x h): 0.72 x 0.832 in. / 18.28 x 21.13 mm
Overall Size (w x h): 0.87 x 0.982 in. / 22.09 x 24.94 mm
Booklet Size (w x h): 1.74 x 10.375 in. / 44.19 x 263.52 mm
Marginal Markings On Cover: "© 2003 USPS" • Plate Numbers "Holiday Ornaments" "Twenty 37c Self-adhesive Stamps" • "4 different designs" • Price • Barcode • Website address • Promotional text • USPS Logo
Earliest Known Use November 17, 2004
USPS Order Numbers Flat Vending Booklet of 20 - $7.40 - 673340
First Day Cover, Set of 4 - $3.00 - 673263 (May not be Vending Book Stamps)
Availability Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City / Providence / Tucson
Official Announcement

The Postal Service™ will issue 37-cent, Holiday Ornaments special stamps in four designs in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 566400), on November 16, 2004, in New York, New York. The stamps, designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, go on sale nationwide November 17, 2004.

The stamps feature photographs by Sally Andersen- Bruce of painted glass Santa ornaments. The ornaments were made in 1999 in Lauscha, Germany, for D. Blümchen & Company of Ridgewood, New Jersey, and were hand- painted by designer Diane S. Boyce. Nestled in tissue paper, these shiny Santas evoke happy memories of lights, tinsel, and other favorite Christmas tree decorations.

The stamps will also be issued in a double-sided booklet of 20 (Item 673200), a folded vending book of 20 (Item 673300), and an ATM sheetlet of 18 stamps (Item 566900).

Note  
Varieties None

Distribution: Items 673300 and 673311, Holiday Ornaments, PSA Folded Vending Book of 20 (For Vending Use Only)

SDOs will receive automatic distributions of the Holiday Ornaments folded vending books of 20, both straight packaging (Item 673300) and crisscross packaging (Item 673311). Distributions are rounded up to the nearest master carton size (4,500 books for straight; 3,000 books for crisscross).

Initial Supply to Post Offices

SDOs will not make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices. Only Post Offices equipped with the appropriate self-service vending machines may order Items 673300 and 673311 from their designated SDO using a separate PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute stamps to Post Offices before November 10, 2004.

Additional Supply

Authorized Post Offices requiring additional books for restocking of the appropriate self-service vending machines must requisition them from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional books must order them from the appropriate APD using PS Form 17.

For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, APDs will receive additional quantities of the vendible straight books (Item 673300) and crisscross books (Item 673311).

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