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A 2012 U.S. Forever stamp. In 2006, the USPS applied for permission to issue a first-class postage stamp similar to non-denominated stamps, termed the "Forever stamp". [12] The first such stamp was unveiled on March 26, 2007, and went on sale April 12, 2007, for 41 cents (US$0.41). [13]
However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased. [32]
The price of a "forever" stamp, used on the standard first-class letter, stays at 55 cents in 2021. The forever stamp rate has been at 55 cents since Jan. 27, 2019.
On the same day, the Postal Service also issued an American flag stamp with the text "USA First Class", whose value is fixed at 41 cents. [62] In 2011, the Post Office began issuing all new stamps for First-Class postage—both definitives and commemoratives—as Forever stamps: denominations were no longer included on them.
Founded in 1996, [4] Stamps.com was created under the name StampMaster by Jim McDermott, Ari Engelberg, and Jeff Green, who at the time were MBA graduate students at UCLA. [5] [6] StampMaster was among the first companies to obtain approval from the United States Postal Service for beta testing and introducing Internet postage to the market.
The postmarks bore the initial of the particular post office or handling house it was sent from along with a separate time stamp. Postage was prepaid and the postmark was applied to the mailed item by means of an inked hand-stamp. Some historians also consider these postmarks to be the world's first postage "stamps". [3]
The United States Post Office issued the Statue of Liberty Forever stamp on December 1, 2010. [1] The stamp shows the replica of the Statue of Liberty ( Liberty Enlightening the World ) located at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip rather than the original Statue of Liberty in New York. [ 2 ]
On July 29, 1998, the Breast Cancer Research Stamp was issued at a White House event hosted by the First Lady Hillary Clinton with Postmaster General William Henderson, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Congressman Vic Fazio and Betsy Mullen. The stamp originally cost 40 cents; [5] a regular first-class stamp cost 34 cents at that time.