Saturday, September 13, 2014

Early Postal Motor Vehicles





This stamp shows one of the first official gasoline-powered vehicle used by the United States Post Office Department for the collection of mail from street letterboxes. The stamp is one of four 25-cent Classic Mail Transportation commemorative stamps issued November 19, 1989. All four stamps were shown on a previous post on maximum cards issued by the USPS here.

This Maximum card is ©1989 The Maximum Card Collection, A Division of Unicover Corporation. Another early postal vehicle, a mail wagon of the 1920s, is shown on the maximum card.


This is a post for Sunday Stamps at Viridian's Postcard Blog


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6 comments:

  1. HeleenSeptember 14, 2014 at 3:50:00 AM CDT

    Beautiful maxicard and stamp! Of course postal vehicles are (also) one of my favourite themes. Thank you for sharing!

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  2. agiSeptember 14, 2014 at 3:54:00 AM CDT

    i love the look of the postal vehicle on the stamp! its like it embodies the joy of receiving mail :)

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  3. Mail AdventuresSeptember 14, 2014 at 5:04:00 AM CDT

    Also is a favourite of mine.

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  4. Bob ScotneySeptember 14, 2014 at 5:17:00 AM CDT

    Historic vehicle that deserves to be on a stamp.

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  5. viridianSeptember 14, 2014 at 9:29:00 AM CDT

    I seem to have missed these stamps. Thank you for joining in this week.

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  6. VioletSkySeptember 14, 2014 at 2:26:00 PM CDT

    I've never really thought of postal vehicles as being interesting... I was wrong. (or maybe it's just ours that aren't interesting?!)

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