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88 cents for a first-class stamp

Soapweed

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This happened recently to a lady in Valentine, Nebraska. The story was forwarded to me:

I walked into our local post office the other day to mail a first class letter to someone here in Valentine and it cost me 88 cents!! Why 88 cents, you ask? I’ll tell you why. I gave the clerk my 44 cents for the stamp. She opened her drawer, scanned a stamp, tore it off, without asking me what stamp I wanted and handed it to me. I looked at it and wondered what the symbol on the stamp was. It had swirls and kind of looked like a Christmas tree. But something told me it wasn’t. So I ask the clerk, “What is this?” “Oh”, she said, it’s a Christmas one”. I must have had a questioning look because she said “It’s Muslim”. I said “I don’t want it”. The clerk replied “Well, I can’t do anything about it, I’ve already scanned it.” I thought about it for a split second and then I wadded it up, threw it across the counter and said “Then I’ll buy another one!!” The clerk THEN asked me what I would like. I asked if she had one with a flag. She said “None that I can separate”. “Well what are my choices?” I asked. She replied “I have Black Heritage, Hanukah, or Bob Hope”. My blood pressure went a little higher. I said “Give me Bob Hope”. It flashed through my mind all the USO shows Bob Hope had performed for our troops.

I was infuriated! We are a Christian Nation and the first stamp our local post office offers me is a Muslim stamp!

My son did not die fighting for our country so we could become a Muslim Nation. I say “Bring our troops home. We need them here!”

An angry Citizen of Valentine, Nebraska and of the United States of America….
 

Tam

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Is it time to boycot the post office until Obama gets the picture that the US is a Christian nation and not a Muslim state? :?
 

George

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Nothing shocks me any more - - - I can only hope this is a learning experance!

We will find out in november
 

Steve

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the eid stamp has been around awhile.. while things might have changed... the clerk was wrong to not exchange the stamp.. or offer a choice.. If I was angry enough to crumple up the stamp.. I would have talked to the postmaster... or at least filled out a customer complaint card..

what I really wonder is why the clerk had the stamp to begin with.. the postmaster orders stamps... the clerk then requests stamps to fill their drawer... with out a Muslim population in Valentine why order the stamps? and if the don't sell the office just turns them back in..
 

CattleArmy

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It's shocking that this would happen in a small town post office. I'd wonder about the truth in it and if it is true if there wasn't a new employee of the post office. I've used various post offices and they are usually very much about customer satisfaction. Wonder if this e-mail is like the one about the mountain lions sighted all over?
 

Soapweed

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CattleArmy said:
It's shocking that this would happen in a small town post office. I'd wonder about the truth in it and if it is true if there wasn't a new employee of the post office. I've used various post offices and they are usually very much about customer satisfaction. Wonder if this e-mail is like the one about the mountain lions sighted all over?

It was a letter to the editor in the Valentine newspaper. I know the lady, and yes, she did lose a son in Iraq. Jim Lambley read it on the KSDZ radio station. Here is Jim's rendition:

http://www.ksdzfm.com/Muslim_Stamp_For_A_Gold_Star_Mom.mp3
 

katrina

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Steve said:
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the eid stamp has been around awhile.. while things might have changed... the clerk was wrong to not exchange the stamp.. or offer a choice.. If I was angry enough to crumple up the stamp.. I would have talked to the postmaster... or at least filled out a customer complaint card..

what I really wonder is why the clerk had the stamp to begin with.. the postmaster orders stamps... the clerk then requests stamps to fill their drawer... with out a Muslim population in Valentine why order the stamps? and if the don't sell the office just turns them back in..



I've had trouble with the Valentine Post Office too... Only my situation was a little differant... But I did hold my ground.. :D :wink: (imagine that!) 8)
 
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Anonymous

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Here is a website commemorating the four Holidays that are most important to Americans with stamps issued by the USPS. One is for Christmas. one is for Hanukkah, one is for Kwanzaa and one is for EIDul-Fitu. America is great they thought of all of us.

https://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10052&catalogId=10001&categoryId=10000068&parent_category_rn=10000003&top_category=10000003
 
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Anonymous

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Sandhusker said:
Who decided that Kwanza and that other one that I've never heard of are most important to Americans? That's rediculous.

I will try to find out who is in charge of the stamp collections and let you know as soon as I can.
 

Steve

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hurleyjd said:
Sandhusker said:
Who decided that Kwanza and that other one that I've never heard of are most important to Americans? That's rediculous.

I will try to find out who is in charge of the stamp collections and let you know as soon as I can.

in the five years of working at the post office, I doubt I sold more then a book or two of each of the EID or the Kwanza stamps.. I do remember selling one sheet of the EID, as I had never heard of it when a customer asked about it,, he wanted one to show his buddies at the VFW... other then that I didn't sell any of them... and we had the lady who ran a black historical society who always bought "A" Kwanza stamp.. and a sheet of Black history stamps... just so she could storm over to the postmasters office if we happened to be out... :roll: :roll: :wink:

but we went through pallets of the Christmas, Holiday and boxes of Hanukkah stamps.. but none of them compared to the Flag stamps in volume..

The best-selling stamp ever is an image of Elvis Presley.
 
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Anonymous

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hurleyjd said:
Sandhusker said:
Who decided that Kwanza and that other one that I've never heard of are most important to Americans? That's rediculous.

I will try to find out who is in charge of the stamp collections and let you know as soon as I can.

Here is the best I could do this is the way United States Military Acadamy did it and who approved it. Hope this helps.

The USMA Bicentennial Stamp Subcommittee has been active for ten years. These volunteers have focused their efforts on applying to the Postmaster General for a West Point Stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of USMA. This stamp will be issued on 16 March 2002. Recently, the PMG has announced its decision to issue a stamp to commemorate each service academy every fifty years. The West Point bicentennial stamp design was approved by the Superintendent, the Chairman of the AOG, the Chairman of the BSG, the Stamps Division Director of the USPS, the Citizens Stamps Advisory Committee and the Postmaster General.
 
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Anonymous

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Translation of the Arabic words on the stamp.

After a year's sketching, Zakariya proposed two versions of the stamp design to Henderson. The one chosen uses a Turkish style of calligraphy in gold letters on a royal-blue background. The words, in Arabic;, are "'id mubarak" ("blessed feast"), a phrase as common among Muslims as "Merry Christmas" is among Christians, and equally applicable to the two major feasts of the Muslim calendar: 'Id al-fitr, the feast of fast-breaking, which follows the holy month of Ramadan, and 'Id al-adha, the feast of the sacrifice, which follows the days of the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah. The words "EID GREETINGS" run above and below the calligraphy.
 
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