McCain Prompts Postal Service To Cut Congressional Stamp Albums
December 29th, 2009 admin
Bill McAllister, Washington correspondent for Linn’s Stamp News, reports in the Jan. 11 edition that the United States Postal Service will no longer give presentation albums to members of Congress. According to Bill, Senator John McCain wrote a letter to Postmaster Jack Potter saying that he found the practice of giving personally engraved albums “irresponsible” after having received a blue presentation album with the Kelp Forest minature sheet and his name stamped in gold. McCain’s letter reads in part, “Until the Postal Service no longer owes the American taxpayers millions of dollars, I request you …
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