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- NATION, Page 33American NotesSTAMPSNot Made In the U.S.A.
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- What could be more all-American than a U.S. postage stamp
- series that features the faces of great Americans? Almost
- anything. In a move that stirred outrage among patriotic
- philatelists, the U.S. Postal Service disclosed last week that
- two issues from the series will be printed in Canada. This marks
- the first time U.S. postage will be printed abroad. One stamp
- bears the likeness of the late New Mexico Senator Dennis Chavez.
- The other depicts former Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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- The work moved north after the Postal Service decided to
- farm out the job to Stamp Venturers of Fairfax, Va. The firm,
- in turn, apparently decided that no printing company in the
- U.S. could perform the work. But patriots, take heart! The
- stamps will be printed on American-made paper.
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