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Stamp Stock Items Withdrawn From Regular Sale and From Sale at Philatelic Centers

Effective close-of-business June 30, 2017, all Post Offices™, stations, branches, postal stores, vending outlets, and authorized philatelic centers must:

1. Completely withdraw the stamp stock items and all associated products listed in the table 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 Center or Stamp Distribution Office.

Do not permit sales of the stamp stock items, products, and their related vending and store-prepared stamp items listed in the table at retail counters and outlets after June 30, 2017.

Stamp Items and All Associated Products to be Completely Withdrawn from Sale

 

Item

Description

335500

2016-2017 Migratory Bird

473500

Richard Allen

473600

Views of Our Planets

473900

Shirley Temple

580000

Inverted Jenny

587400

Medal of Honor: Korean War

587700

Vintage Rose

588200

The War of 1812: Fort McHenry

589300

Civil War: 1865

788400

Spectrum Eagle, Coil of 3,000

— Stamp Services,
Marketing, 5-25-17




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