Get Ready For Eight-Cent Postage
Community Reporter, February 26, 1971 http://tinyurl.com/yhla4ny
Editorial - GET READY FOR EIGHT-CENT POSTAGE - Postage Rate increases now planned for May 13, will bring into use a number of special, new postage stamps of various denominations, but the one which will first proclaim to the public that letters are going to cost more will be the Missouri Commemorative stamp, marking the 150th anniversary of that State as a member of the Union.
There will be, in all, a dozen new types of postage stamps, three kinds of stamped envelopes and three postal cards.
Additional new stamps and cards and a new aerogramme will be needed by July 1st for the new international rates which go into effect at that time.
The Missouri commemorative will carry a portion of the mural gracing the wall of the Harry S. Truman library at Independence, Missouri, and will be the first stamp to bear the designation showing the new 8-cent first-class mail rate.
It will go on sale on May 8, at Independence, Missouri, according to Post Office Department announcement, and will be available at other Post Offices throughout the country the day after, May 9.
The day is chosen because May 8 will be President Truman's 87th birthday. The theme is from the painting, "The Winning of the West," by a noted Missouri artist, Thomas Hart Benton, who will be 82 years old himself on April 15.
Community Reporter, February 26, 1971.
Community Reporter, February 26, 1971 http://tinyurl.com/yhla4ny
Editorial - GET READY FOR EIGHT-CENT POSTAGE - Postage Rate increases now planned for May 13, will bring into use a number of special, new postage stamps of various denominations, but the one which will first proclaim to the public that letters are going to cost more will be the Missouri Commemorative stamp, marking the 150th anniversary of that State as a member of the Union.
There will be, in all, a dozen new types of postage stamps, three kinds of stamped envelopes and three postal cards.
Additional new stamps and cards and a new aerogramme will be needed by July 1st for the new international rates which go into effect at that time.
The Missouri commemorative will carry a portion of the mural gracing the wall of the Harry S. Truman library at Independence, Missouri, and will be the first stamp to bear the designation showing the new 8-cent first-class mail rate.
It will go on sale on May 8, at Independence, Missouri, according to Post Office Department announcement, and will be available at other Post Offices throughout the country the day after, May 9.
The day is chosen because May 8 will be President Truman's 87th birthday. The theme is from the painting, "The Winning of the West," by a noted Missouri artist, Thomas Hart Benton, who will be 82 years old himself on April 15.
Community Reporter, February 26, 1971.
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Community Reporter, Feb 26, 1971: Get Ready For Eight-Cent Postage
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