Really what they do is disco, pure and simple, a slightly cheesier and more commercial version of the sort of sublime 12-inchers that might have been issued by post-disco labels Prelude or West End, with a nod and a wink to the wonderful Ze Records.
Policies issued by the post office's life-insurance scheme, Kampo, are also guaranteed by the government.
Nevertheless, about 4,000 receiving-set licenses and 150 amateur transmitting licenses issued by the Post Office by March 1921 were evidence of growing interest.
In describing furtive games played for "postal currency," paper issued by the Post Office and used in lieu of hard-to-get coins, the New York volunteer Albert Rowe Barlow mentioned euchre as a "standard game" — though for Barlow and other gamblers North and South, poker was the hands-down favorite.
Stamps were issued by the Post Office depicting St. Kilda in 1986 and 2004.
Around 1971, the use of watermarks was discontinued by the Irish stamp-issuing authority, and current stamps issued by An Post do not use a watermarked paper.
Two sets of stamps are being issued by Jersey Post.
Stamps marking the 150th anniversary of the International Red Cross movement are being issued by Jersey Post.
Four stamps to celebrate the Duke of Cambridge's 30th birthday are being issued by Jersey Post on Thursday.
World-renowned ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn is the subject of a set of six stamps to be issued by Jersey Post.
