Stamp Services

Stamp Stock Items Withdrawn From Regular Sale and From Sale at Philatelic Centers

Effective close-of-business, December 31, 2018, 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.

Only during your return cycle may you 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 in the table at retail counters and outlets after December 31, 2018.

Stamp Items and All Associated Products to be Completely Withdrawn From Sale

* Retain Save Vanishing Species semipostal stamps at the unit level until further notice. Do not prepare or return Save Vanishing Species semipostal stamps for destruction at this time. Please refer to the article entitled “Save Vanishing Species Semipostal Stamps to be Withdrawn From Sale — Statutory Authority Expires December 31, 2018” below.

— Stamp Services, Marketing, 11-22-18