Company Spends $24K On New Stamp

And you thought you were excited about the new Forever Stamp! Jetmaker Dassault Falcon Jet has purchased $24,000 on the stamp for use in a junk mail campaign.

The stamps, a spokesman says, caught the eye of the company because their corporate jets are built to last, though they don’t necessarily last for an indefinite amount of time. They do, though, cost up to $40 million, so clearly buying 58,536 stamps isn’t really a big expense.

“When the ‘forever’ stamp was launched, we saw a natural tie with the long-term value of our Falcon business jets,” a spokestool told the Inquirer.

Meanwhile, 84-year-old Harry Kaplan doesn’t have the Internet or whatever, so he went down to get a stamp for his collection. He bought seven sheets and 40 commemorative envelopes to trade with other philatelists. (Nearly every writer uses this word in stories about stamps, even though it’s never used in everyday life and isn’t technically correct — collecting stamps is different than philately — and I like to moo along with the rest of the herd.)

Kaplan is a collector of a autographs on stamped envelopes, sort of a fetish for the stamp collecting world. His best one?

“I got a Connie Mack autograph on a letter that was sent to his funeral director thanking him for burying his wife,” he said.

Connie’s original plans were, of course, to trade his late wife to the Phillies, who were really short at third base that year.

‘Forever’ stamp debuts here; jetmaker buys 24,000 [Inquirer]
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