Effective close-of-business September 30, 2011, 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-101, Field Accounting Procedures, and subchapter 11-6, Returning Stock to the Stamp Distribution Office or Stamp Distribution Center.
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 September 30, 2011. Stamp items listed with an asterisk (*) remain on sale at Stamp Fulfillment Services via the USA Philatelic Catalog.
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 and Public Policy, 8-25-11
