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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

7 - A7 - 1c blue, type II (Plates 1E, 2);

Papal See
The Vatican will issue a stamp that wil only be used during the time that the Papal See is vacant, that is after the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of the new pope later in April or May. Accordingly, the stamp will show two crossed keys but the papal mitre that marks the authority of the Pope will be missing from the design. ...JPII arms

To me, these are great covers in the making, as long as they're realy postally used and not some philatelic/vanity thing.

Robert Penn Warren honored on U.S. Postage Stamp
WASHINGTON – Robert Penn Warren—the first official poet laureate of the United States—will be honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a stamp in the Literary Arts stamp series at an 11 a.m. ceremony April 22 in Penn’s hometown of Guthrie, KY.


The ceremony will take place at the Robert Penn Warren Museum at 122 Cherry St., and is part of a week-long series of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Warren’s birth. The stamp will be available at the museum and at the Guthrie Post Office April 22, and at Post Offices and Philatelic Centers nationwide on Saturday, April 23.

This stamp, 21st in the Literary Arts series, recognizes the achievements of Robert Penn Warren, a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the only writer to win the prize in poetry “Promises: Poems, 1954-1956” in 1958, and “Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978” in 1979 as well as fiction “All the King’s Men,” 1947.

The Demise of the USPS
A CNSNews.com commentary or rather good riddance to the post office's monopoly on your mailbox. Nice insight and also a good way to stop junk mail, waste, and printed-spam, which is what bulk rate mail really is. ...bye-bye

Patriotic sentiments covered letters of Civil War era
Nice local coverage of civil war patriotics in bloody Kansas. ...civil war

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