On January 3, 2009, in Anchorage, Alaska, the Postal Service™ will issue a 42-cent, Alaska Statehood commemorative stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 464100). The stamp, designed by Phil Jordan, Falls Church, VA, goes on sale nationwide January 3, 2009.
With the issuance of this stamp in 2009, the U.S. Postal Service® commemorates the 50th anniversary of Alaska statehood. Comprising more than 570,000 square miles of land, Alaska is the largest of the 50 states and home to approximately 670,000 residents. The name of the state derives from an Aleut word meaning “great land.”
The stamp features a photograph by Jeff Schultz, Anchorage, Alaska, of a dogsledder taken in 2000 near Rainy Pass in the Alaska Range. Text on the stamp reads “1959 ALASKA.”
Customers have 60 days to obtain the first day of issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™, at The Postal Store® website at www.usps.com/shop, or by calling 800-STAMP-24. They should affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes (to themselves or others), and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:
Alaska Statehood Stamp
Station Manager
344 3rd Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99501-2713
After applying the first day of issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark. All orders must be postmarked by March 4, 2009.
Stamp Fulfillment Services also offers first day covers for new stamp issues and Postal Service stationery items postmarked with the official first day of issue cancellation. Each item has an individual catalog number and is offered in the quarterly USA Philatelic catalog. Customers may request a free catalog by calling 800-STAMP-24 or writing to:
Information Fulfillment
Dept. 6270
U.S. Postal Service
P.O. Box 219014
Kansas City, MO 64121-9014
There are three philatelic products available for this stamp issue:
Items with an asterisk (*) will use the 128 barcode from Stamp Fulfillment Services. All other philatelic products will continue to use barcode series A, with the exception of the Yearbook and the Guide Book.
Stamp distribution offices (SDOs) will receive approximately 20 percent to 25 percent of their full standard automatic distribution quantity for a PSA sheet stamp. Distributions are rounded up to the nearest master carton size (40,000 stamps).
SDOs will make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices of 20 percent of their full standard automatic distribution quantity using PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute stamps to Post Offices before December 26, 2008.
Post Offices requiring additional stamps must requisition Item 464100 from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional stamps must order them from the appropriate accountable paper depository (APD) using PS Form 17.
For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, the Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Memphis APDs will receive 800,000 additional stamps.
Issue:
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Alaska Statehood
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Item Number:
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464100
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Denomination &
Type of Issue:
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42-cent Commemorative
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Format:
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Pane of 20 (1 design)
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Series:
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N/A
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Issue Date & City:
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January 3, 2009, Anchorage, AK
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Designer:
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Phil Jordan, Falls Church, VA
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Art Director:
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Phil Jordan, Falls Church, VA
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Typographer:
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Phil Jordan, Falls Church, VA
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Existing Photograph:
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Jeff Schultz, Anchorage, AK
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Modeler:
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Donald Woo
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Manufacturing Process:
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Offset, Microprinting, “USPS”
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Printer:
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Banknote Corporation of
America/SSP
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Printed at:
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Browns Summit, NC
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Press Type:
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Alprinta, 74
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Stamps per Pane:
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20
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Print Quantity:
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30 million stamps
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Paper Type:
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Phosphor Tagged, Overall
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Adhesive Type:
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Pressure-sensitive
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Processed at:
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Unique Binders, Fredericksburg, VA
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Colors:
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Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
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Stamp Orientation:
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Horizontal
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Image Area (w x h):
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1.40 x 0.82 in./35.56 x 20.83 mm
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Overall Size (w x h):
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1.56 x 0.98 in./39.62 x 24.89 mm
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Full Pane Size (w x h):
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7.14 x 5.78 in./181.36 x 146.81 mm
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Plate Size:
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180 stamps per revolution
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Plate Numbers:
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“S” followed by four (4) single digits
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Marginal Markings:
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Front:
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© 2008 USPS • Price • Plate
numbers in four corners of pane
• Plate position diagram
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Back
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USPS logo • Barcodes (464100) in
four corners of pane
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All Post Offices must acquire and maintain a supply of each new commemorative stamp as long as customer demand exists, until inventory is depleted, or until the stamp is officially withdrawn from sale. If supplies run low, Post Offices must reorder additional quantities using their normal ordering procedures.
— Stamp Services,
Government Relations, 12-4-08
