Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mhuxj.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!mhuxa!mhuxi!aluxz!mhuxj!presley From: presley@mhuxj.UUCP Newsgroups: net.columbia,net.rec Subject: postage stamp for shuttle Message-ID: <2602@mhuxj.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 15:17:38 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxj.2602 Posted: Thu Jun 23 15:17:38 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jun-83 17:54:06 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 21 >From the June 27 issue of the newspaper "Stamp Collector": The US Postal Service, which needs a $9.35 stamp for Express Mail, will inaugurate one on "space mail" covers, ... The rate is for next-day delivery of a package weighing up to two pounds. The special stamp will be issued Aug. 14 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The space covers will be part of the payload for the Challenger, scheduled for liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center the same day. The exact number of envelopes bearing the stamps ... has not yet been determined ... The tentative price ... is $15 a cover. The Postal Service preference has been for 500,000 covers as adequate to meet estimated philatelic and public requirements. -- Joe Presley (...!mhuxj!presley, harpo!presley)