Stamp-collecting news and notes.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | October 30, 2003| | Copyright

Byline: Dominic Sama

The U.S. Postal Service has come up with a simple method of selling unsold some stamps: reissue the stamp a year later.

The opportunity's not available for stamps commemorating a onetime event such as the centennial of a person or organization.

But it's perfect if the event is an annual repeat like Christmas.

On Oct. 23, the postal service reissued a 37-cent religious-theme stamp reproducing Dutchman Jan Gossaert's "Virgin and Child" (circa 1520). The agency also issued a block of four contemporary stamps of whimsical ...

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