Stamps Taxing For Collectors And the Postal Service Profit
Dear Abby respondent Floored in Florida claimed stamps fund taxes. Gordon C Morison explains USPS operates as a government corporation without Treasury appropriations. Stamp sales cover service costs, fund design costs via collector demand, and support operating expenses. Morison notes 130 million revenue last year and 20 000 design proposals annually. The reply confirms USPS profit from reader response.
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Gordon C. Morison
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U.S. Postal Service
Florida
Stamp buffs push for Chennault portrait issue
Dear Abby readers discuss the first Gen Claire Chennault commemorative stamp for September, noting a high first month sale and the collectability that yields profits for the postal system. A Houston reader adds that commemoratives often yield millions in profit as stamps are bought by collectors and rarely used for postage.
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Abby
China-Burma-India Veterans Association
Claire Chennault
Flying Tigers
Denver
Robert C. Loper
Houston
Murphy calls birth of daughter at show “nasty”
New York comedian Murphy described watching his daughter’s birth as nasty. At a Comic Strip club he fielded a heckler asking if he was married and then spoke about his childhood and the child nine months old. The baby’s mother is model Nicole Mitchell.
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New York
Kadie Murphy
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Nicole Mitchell
Best Holds No Grudges Over Beatles Firing
Troy Michigan report says Pete Best, now in an unemployment office in Troy, holds no bitterness toward the Beatles. The former Beatles drummer, living in Liverpool, attended a Beatles fans convention, noting Ringo Starr replaced him in 1962 after the Love Me Do demo. Best pursued a solo music career and once attempted self harm, yet states he bears no resentment toward his dismissal.
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Pete Best
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Liverpool
England
Ringo Starr
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Tatum O Neal says her husband John McEnroe represented everything she wanted while she pursues acting. She shoots Little Noises for Moment Pictures, her first film in almost five years. She says she has been in hiding but is back, and McEnroe remains a big success and source of inspiration.
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Tatum O'Neal
John McEnroe
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Monment Pictures
McEnroe
Canvassers Safety Concerns Rise After Wolf Creek Killing
The dismemberment of an environmentalist fundraiser in Racine County, Wisconsin, prompts national canvasser safety worries. James Madden, 24, of Whitefish Bay, last seen June 27, found June 29 in rural Wisconsin. no arrests yet. Police say killer likely unrelated to his political work. Greenpeace and other groups urge enhanced safety training for canvassers.
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James Michael Madden
Whitefish Bay
Ra~cine County
Madden
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