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Scott# 3998a | Plate P1, P2 |
Series | USPS - Love ~ PNC3 - Love |
Issue Date & City | March 1, 2006, New York, NY 10199 |
Nationwide Sale | March 2, 2006 |
Designer | Michael Osborne, Berkeley, CA |
Art Director | Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD |
Typographer | Michael Osborne, Berkeley, CA |
Modeler | Joseph M. Sheeran |
Artist | Michael Osborne, Berkeley, CA |
To Press / Initial Impressions | Winter, 2005 / 500 Million |
Process | Offset |
Printer | Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU) |
Printed At | Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU), Williamsville, NY |
Press | Mueller Martini, A76 |
Processed At | Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU) |
Plate Size | 500 stamps per revolution |
Paper & Tagging | Prephosphored USPS Type I, Solid Tagging |
Adhesive | Pressure Sensitive |
Die Cut Gauge | 10.8 x 10.8 on 2, 3 or 4 sides |
Colors | PMS 2635C (Violet) Modified |
Image Area | (w x h): 0.77 x 1.050 in. / 19.558 x 26.67 mm |
Overall Size | (w x h): 0.91 x 1.19 in. / 23.114 x 30.226 mm |
Full Booklet Size | (w x h): 4.55 x 5.00 in. / 115.57 x 127.0 mm |
Markings | Stamp Side:
Plate number • © 2005 USPS • Cover Side: © 2005 USPS • Barcode 675300 • "Our Wedding Stamps" stamp image • Promotional information • USPS Logo • "TWENTY SELF-ADHESIVE 39¢ STAMPS $7.80" |
Earliest Known Use | March 1, 2006 |
USPS Order Numbers | Convertible Booklet of 20 - $7.80 - 675340 |
First Day
Cover - $0 |
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Availability |
Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City and many post offices |
Official Announcement | The Postal Service ™ will issue Our Wedding special stamps, on March 1, 2006, in New York, New York. The stamps, designed by Michael Osborne, Berkeley, California, go on sale nationwide March 2, 2006.These stamps will be available in two formats: • $20.40 Pressure-sensitive (PSA) combination booklet of 40 stamps: twenty 39-cent (1 ounce) stamps and twenty 63-cent (2 ounces) stamps (Item 674800). • $7.80 PSA convertible booklet of twenty 39-cent (1 ounce) stamps (Item 675300). Michael Osborne created the 2006 Our Wedding stamps especially for mailing wedding invitations and RSVPs. Both stamps feature an illustration of a white dove - a time-honored symbol of peace, love, and fidelity - and a heart, surrounded by calligraphic flourishes set against a lavender background (1-ounce denomination) and a light green background (2-ounce denomination). The stamp art is based on elegant calligraphic designs used to embellish correspondence during the 18th and 19th centuries. |
News Release | Click here |
Varieties | |
End Card | Black ink on Cream card stock. Click here for scan. Select Stock card also scanned. |
There are four philatelic products available for Our Wedding booklet of 20 stamps (Item 675300):
• Item 675361: First Day Cover, $0.77.
• Item 675387: Thank You Cards w/20 stamps and envelopes, $14.95.
• Item 675393: Cancellation Keepsake (booklet and first day cover), $8.57.
• Item 675394: Stationery Set w/20 stamps and envelopes, $14.95.
These products will be available while supplies last at postal stores, online at www.usps.com, and by telephone at 800-STAMPS-24.
SDOs will receive a approximate one-third their standard automatic distribution quantity for a PSA booklet. Distributions are rounded up to nearest master carton size (4,000 booklets).
SDOs will make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices for one-fourth their full standard automatic distribution quantity for a PSA booklet using PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute stamps to Post Offices before February 24, 2006.
SDOs will not receive a separate quantity Item 675300 for their authorized philatelic centers. Philatelic centers must be supplied their quantities from the initial automatic distribution made to stamp distribution offices.
Post Offices requiring additional booklets must requisition Item 675300 from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional stamps must order them from the appropriate APD using PS Form 17.
For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, the San Francisco, Chicago, Memphis, and New York APDs will each receive 760,000 additional booklets; and the Denver APD will receive 240,000 additional booklets.
All Post Offices must acquire and maintain a supply of each new special stamp issue as long as customer demand exists, until inventory is depleted, or until the issue is officially withdrawn from sale. If supplies run low, Post Offices must reorder additional quantities using their normal ordering procedures.
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