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- Nov. 20, 1989: Business Notes:Postage Stamps
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 20, 1989 Freedom!
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- BUSINESS, Page 76
- Business Notes
- POSTAGE STAMPS
- Getting Your Last Licks
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- <p> Some things are just too low tech to last. What could be
- more old-fashioned than wrestling a postage stamp out of its
- perforations, coating one's tongue with glue and watching the
- stamp come unstuck along the edges? Sure enough, that ritual is
- now headed the way of the penny postcard. Last week the U.S.
- Postal Service introduced EXTRAordinary Stamps, a line of
- peel-and-stick, self-adhesive postage stamps billed as "the most
- thoroughly researched and tested issue in U.S. stamp history."
- The new 25 cents first-class stamps will be test-marketed for
- 30 days in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Minneapolis and
- ten other cities. One possible sticking point for consumers: a
- booklet of 18 first-class stamps is priced at $5, which includes
- a 50 cents markup to cover the cost of the new "special
- features."
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