The Rush for One-Cent Stamps

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Title: The Rush for One-Cent Stamps
Creator(s): Fahland, Jack
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Date: 1969-01-09
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): New St. Louis Post Office [no date recorded on caption card]
Postal service
postal workers
Geographic Area: Saint Louis (Mo.)
Time Period: 1960-1969
Description: "People waiting in lines Monday to buy one-cent stamps at the main post office. New postal rates caused a run-on post offices Monday as St. Louisans had to buy millions of the one-cent stamps to supplement their outdated supply of five-cents."
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Classification: M112-STLSubjects-Globe-DemocratPostOffice_015
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