Geography Lesson...

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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:24:13 +0100


Hiya All...

Here's a geography lesson...sent in by Ingrid...

Wishes & Dreams...

- ANDREA
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It took millions of years for nature to carve out
the Grand Canyon and no time at all for the U.S. Postal Service to
misplace it.

One of the most spectacular examples of erosion anywhere in the world,
the Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River but is actually in
Arizona.

The Postal Service was in the process of printing an order for nearly
101 million stamps of the natural wonder engraved with "Grand Canyon,
Colorado" when it had to halt production. 

Fortunately, the error was caught before all of several processes
involved in producing the self-adhesive backed stamps were finished, Don
Smeraldi, spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service, told Reuters.

"In our view it's not really an error," Smeraldi said. "No customer has
received any of these. None were issued." He said the stamps "never left
the printer."

Smeraldi said it was unknown just how much of the total order had been
under production when the error was found, but he said all of the
misprinted stamps would be destroyed and the order reprinted.

Smeraldi said the Postal Service does not know the cost of the error.
Neither does the agency know at this time what the reprinting costs will
be, he said. 

"We're discussing with the printer just now the cost," he said. "We
don't have any idea at this time. This is a printer we work with all the
time so we don't really know how much it will be."

The stamps, scheduled for issue in early 2000, will sell for 60 cents
each for international mail use and will have a picture of the Grand
Canyon and the issue year on them. He said the words "Grand Canyon"
would be included but did not confirm if "Arizona" would be added. 


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