Philately

Stamp Stock Items Withdrawn From Regular Sale and From Sale at Philatelic Centers

Effective close-of-business December 31, 2007, all Post Offices™, stations, branches, postal stores, vending outlets, and authorized philatelic centers must (1) withdraw the stamp stock items and products listed below and their related vending and store-prepared stamp items from sale and (2) prepare them for destruction. Submit items to destruction sites according to local established proce­dures, under the guidelines in Handbook F-1, Post Office Accounting Procedures, subchapter 45, Destroying Stamp Stock.

Do not permit sales of the stamp stock items, products, and their related vending and store-prepared stamp items listed below at retail counters and outlets after December 31, 2007.

Note: This notice does not apply to philatelic products unless specifically listed below. Philatelic products that contain or are packaged with stamps removed from sale will remain on sale until further notice.

— Stamp Services,
Government Relations, 11-22-07