European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 11 the stars and stripes thursday August 21,1986 stamp Corner today s crossword Post office operates As bus Ness dog Slid 1920s  contrary to what Many think the . Postal service no longer receives subsidy from Congress. It is run As a business an must make a profit like any other business. This was the thrust or a conversation which we had during Ameri Pex wit assistant Post master general Gordon c. Mori son head of the uses customer service depart  does provide the postal service with Revenue foregone funding however to permit reductions in the Cost of non prom mailings. The Chan Ging level of this funding is the reason for the Many. Decimal value Coil Stamps that have appeared in re cent years and the uncertainty of this year s funding due to Gramm Rudman is the Why the four Decimal items announced earlier have not been issued the postal service has been unable to set the Rale. The uses has now announced that the dog sled transportation Coil will be released on aug. 20, As a 17 cent value replacing the 17-cent electric Auto Coil. The dogsled stamp was initially planned As a Deci Mal value. The reason for replacing the electric Auto coi is the same As Why some of the great american Stamps Are being replaced the scrapping of the Bureau of engraving and printing s Cottrell presses. However the uses and the Bep have announced that some of the Coil Stamps will be re engraved and production will continue on the a c or d presses. This will create some varieties the 14-cent icebox Atcoal to Start with in the transportation Coil series. Some readily apparent differences include the Vignette picture will be smaller. The engraving will be shallower. The new pumps will appear to have a slightly differ ent Cote Trade even though Ite same inks will be used. The reason for this is technical due to production differ ence Between the Conrd i and in a c and p  design of the 17-cent dog sled stamp it based on old photographs and a 1930s fled at the smithsonian institution in Washington , sleds of this Type were common in the Early 1900. And some Are still being built today. To obtain first Day cancellations tend return addressed coven together with 22 cents per cover to be cancelled to dog sled stamp postmaster Anchorage Alaska 9950z-9592. The uses will Combine the new stamp with a a cent motorcycle Coil stamp to make in required first class rate. Deadline for getting fac re quest in the mail is sept. 19. One of the biggest responsibilities of the uses marketing department is the office of marketing which works with commercial and government mailers the people who provide 83 percent of All postal Revenue which in turn generates another 11 percent in replies. Personal mail accounts for Only 6 percent a typical activity is the "mailen1 technical advisory co Mittra made up of 7i major mailers working with the uses to develop new services product enhancement if you will. From this group recently came the idea of International priority airmail introduced in May a service which a what the uses 11 Selling that reduces delivery Lime by one Day at a reduced Cost provided Al Hast 200 pieces Are being mailed. Also it was the office of marketing working with military postal authorities that made express mail available to european Apos. The average Mailer is probably most familiar with the office of consumer affairs. Not Only do they handle individual cases they also Analyse comments from the Public and work with uses management to resolve problems such As special mailers for the Blind or addresses being separated from film processing  office of consumer affairs also conducts sur Veys to determine Community Nee i. From this to cite an example came the adjusted window hour pro Gram to have Post Ollices open when the customer can go sch As in the Early morning or late at mint. This is now being tested in 21 cities. In Merrifield va., the Post office i open All Day on sunday noting that the private express companies provide Good Competition for the postal service. Momon ended our conversation with two thoughts what business buys is the uses s ability to reach the consumer. Our task is to identify customer nerds including the con Sumer and to develop  at Ameri Pex we met again with Pete Davidson director of the office of Stamps and philatelic Market ing under Morison. We had talked at italia and that conversation was reported previously. There were sever Al areas of discussion that should be interest to collectors the love stomp will be an annual release. Its Suc Cess has been phenomenal especially among non ool lec tie great american and transportation definitive series Are planned for Thi indefinite  on theother hand the Patriot postal cards will be phased out More books arc planned for publication. For those readers who have not seen them these have been really top Quality production. The recent Ameri Pex Booklet which Cost is 0, is now sold out. These tenant Block of four sets have been very popular and will continue. Our Challenge is to avoid a cookie Cutler  Davidson Nowd. Fractional  to .1" value Stamps will continue to be sold in strips of ten. With the new riles on use of or cancels clarified in the july 10 postal bulletin on Rand at your local Apo this should present no prob Lem slogan and pictorial cancels for collectors of pictorial cancellations Davidson did not hold out much Hope for getting them approved at Apo location. Our Rule is that they can Only be maj at non postal Sites such As shows and convert Lions he explained. The Apos Are not staffed to pro vide tuck services and he thought it might be a depart ment of defense prohibition hat prevented such  rules also require that Post offices hold pictorial cancelling devices for 30 Days to provide replacements to Dan Tafuri items. This is True also for the current presidential Birthplace cancellations. After this period the can Ceten Are returned to the retail Branch at the regional office where they Are held another 60 Days before being  the other hand there is no guarantee of Quality for machine slogan cancellations and no replacement possible after the die Hub b removed. Without High Speed cancelling machines we Hope collectors under stand our  final question was about authorizing the use of pictorial Mailer permit  while not within the authority of the office of Stamps Davidson Felt they probably would not be authorized due to the potential for abuse by creating artificial Scarcity. A few final items from Ameri Pex with regard to at a seminar with the citizens stamp advisory committe Sarthe question was raised about add ing dates on the Bottom of . Stamps As Many other countries do. 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