Stamp Collection
Bill "Lars" Colp

Highlights

The major issue here is what kind of stamps should be included? By excluding stamps issued for use outside the U.S. (even if it was occupied territory) and stamps primarily issued for non-postage usage (e.g. Revenues), I settled on these categories that need to be in a comprehensive collection of U.S. Postage Stamps:

• Postage Due
• Parcel Post
• Parcel Post Insurance
• Parcel Post Postage Due
• Special Handling
• Special Delivery
• Registered Mail
• Certified Mail
• Official Stamps
• Newspapers and Periodicals
• Express Mail & Priority Mail

I chose to move all Priority and Express issues to BOB since they seemed to belong with issues such as Special Delivery.

A good argument can be made that Postage Due isn't really postage at all. A similar argument can be made for Registered, Certified, and Insured stamps. I disagree, however, and choose to include those stamps in the main BOB album because they have a monetary value and are directly tied to the delivery services provided by the Post Office and are now often paid with regular postage stamps.

The hardest decision was regarding Computer Vended Postage. A few of these issues look just like other stamps, but those are exceptions. A case could be made for a few of the CVP numbers, but I elected to simply exclude Computer Vended Postage and put a few illustrative examples in the Beyond BOB album. I did include all of the variations of the ones that looked like "normal" stamps.

Missing

• O69 - $5 State Department Official
• O70 - $10 State Department Official

Weeds

• page 1: The second series of Postage Dues could be considered weeds. The color difference is borderline to warrant inclusion. They are included since there are spaces for them.

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