Licking cancer: USPS stamp helped fund key breast study

Posted on June 5, 2018June 5, 2018 by 21cpw

June 04, 2018 CHICAGO (AP) — Countless breast cancer patients in the future will be spared millions of dollars of chemotherapy thanks in part to something that millions of Americans did that cost them just pennies: bought a postage stamp. Proceeds from the U.S. Postal Service’s breast cancer stamp put researchers over the top when…

USPS: Recalling the history of stamp positioning

Posted on June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 by 21cpw

The Postal Service has asked customers to place stamps in the upper-right corner of envelopes and other mailings for years. Do you know why? When postage stamps were first introduced in 1847, they were hand-cancelled individually by Postmasters and postal clerks. The introduction of high-speed cancelling machines in the 1890s changed things. “[T]he placement of…