Based on income reported to the government, the best-paid professionals in Turkey are notaries, who stamp official documents.
Pizzerias that serve the approved brand are now stamped official.
In the autumn, the divorce papers arrived in the mail, stamped, official.
The parliamentary body, the Supreme People's Assembly, rubber-stamps official decisions and elects the chairman of the country's top governing agency, the National Defense Commission.
The stamps are priced to pay domestic postage rates but can be used on all letters, and while Japan Post said it would honor the stamps, Japanese officials said the issue violates the cooperative spirit of the Universal Postal Union.
In 2006, when there were about 43,000 able-bodied adults receiving food stamps, city officials estimated that if the three-month limit were waived, at least 13,900 more people would become eligible.
In Norfolk, Va., 16 miles south of Poquoson, so many people showed up when the city began accepting applications for disaster food stamps that officials moved the site to its sports arena.
"This was his favourite painting of himself, the one used for stamps and official reproductions".
"Give World Peace a chance," read a Los Angeles Times headline Sept. 24, a week after the name change was stamped as official.
That biographical detail helps explain the exhibition's title — "Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful" — which was later stamped on official papers when he fled Czechoslovakia to London exile.
