Effective close-of-business May 10, 2009, all Post Offices™, stations, branches, postal stores, vending outlets, and authorized philatelic centers must (1) withdraw the stamped envelope items 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-101, Field Accounting Procedures, subchapter 11-6, Returning Stock to the SDO or SSC.
Do not permit sales of the stamped envelope items, products, and their related vending and store-prepared stamp items listed below at retail counters and outlets after May 10, 2009. Items listed are withdrawn from sale due to the May 11, 2009, price change.
The Elk Stamped Envelopes listed are also off-sale at Stamp Fulfillment Services.
— Stamp Services,
Government Relations and Public Policy, 4-23-09