Tamil Nadu's revenue through stamp duty and registrations has jumped over 29 per cent between April-December 2011, compared with the corresponding period last the previous year.
STAMP COLLECTING
STAMP COLLECTING
Jan
27
Stamp ‘collectors’ charged with multi-million heist
Police have arrested four men from Ballerup – aged 31, 34, 43 and 54 – in connection with a humongous heist of new Danish stamps worth 23 million kroner.
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Jan
27
Ode to Snail Mail
The Forbes website reports, “In the same week first-class postage rose a penny to 45 cents, the debt-ridden United States Postal Service re-circulated its ode to snail mail, the ‘Hacker’ commercial. If you haven’t seen it, the spot opens with women putting notices they presumably received via mail on their refrigerators and cork board. ‘A refrigerator has never been hacked,’ the narrator says. ‘An online virus has never attacked a cork board.’”
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Jan
27
Foxborough students remember Holocaust victims with stamp drive, art work
Eleven million. It’s a huge number that has huge significance to the students at the Foxborough Regional Charter School. To them, it represents the number of people killed during the Holocaust.
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Jan
26
One stamp at a time: Foxborough students remember Holocaust victims with stamp drive, art work
Eleven million. It’s a huge number that has huge significance to the students at the Foxborough Regional Charter School. To them, it represents the number of people killed during the Holocaust.
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Jan
26
Collectors gather to swap stamps, stories at monthly meeting
Tom Culver can attest to the fact that much can be learned from an avid philatelist. Better known as stamp collectors, Culver said he has learned about global politics by what countries print on their stamps. “You’ll know all the answers on Jeopardy! if you collect stamps,” Culver said. He [...]
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Jan
26
EVENT: Postal Service to Issue Miles Davis Stamp
More than 20 years after his death, jazz legend Miles Davis is being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with his very own stamp. This year, the "Kind of Blue" trumpeter will be immortalized in a collection of musically-themed stamps that will also honor the singer Edith Piaf, according to The Telegraph. They will be released in partnership with the French postal service, La Poste…
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Jan
26
App helps find phone lost in trash
WAUKEE, Iowa (AP) — A Waukee woman whose iPhone ended up in the bowels of a garbage truck has the device back, thanks to a GPS chip and the kindness of some trash collectors who sorted through garbage at the landfill.
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Jan
26
A one-of-a-kind history lesson at the National Stamps Exhibit
In the e-mail age, stamps may already be archaic. But at the National Stamps Exhibit, these small pieces of paper are precious artifacts that showcase Philippine history.
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Jan
26
Lords vote to buy finest images of the Vale
THE owner of Stoke Mandeville’s Obsidian Gallery says it is a ‘wonderful accolade’ that seven Bucks artworks have been chosen for the The House of Lords’ permanent collection.
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