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BUSINESS, Page 76Business NotesPOSTAGE STAMPSGetting Your Last Licks
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."