We also mailed stamped addressed return envelopes (SAE).
After six hours of destruction, they hit the jackpot: over $600 in mailing stamps (the preferred form of currency in the federal system), hidden in a sealed laundry soap box.
With Chris, he designed two 1994 stamps — a 29-cent first-class stamp and a $9.95 express-mail stamp — commemorating the moon landing's 25th anniversary.
When you're begging for a second bag of peanuts (the flight attendants will generally take pity, and even allow three or four), even the thought of smoked turkey and American cheese on a soggy croissant with yellow mustard and wilted lettuce (served with a box of raisins the size of a priority-mail stamp and a brownie so sweet your teeth hurt) can make your mouth water.
The image made the cover of the Smithsonian magazine in 1994 and was fashioned into a US first-class mail stamp in 1999.
In the autumn, the divorce papers arrived in the mail, stamped, official.
It was a tradition to have one's mail stamped in Aden, where it could be sent back to Ceylon or onward to England.
This time, there are no plans to recall or destroy the 60-cent air mail stamps, Don Smeraldi, a Postal Service spokesman, said today.
An example: Amazon, keen that its automatic order-confirmations not be filtered out as spam by mistake, would buy a million e-mail "stamps" for $0.01 each from Goodmail, which would share the $10,000 with participating internet service providers (ISPs).
As further evidence of its enthusiasm, the Latvian postal service offered a "special stamping session" on Saturday, during which locals got the chance to queue up for the privilege of having their mail stamped with a commemorative Eurovision postmark.
