How much does it cost every time the U.S. Postal Service designs a new stamp?
The Postal Service spends about $40,000 for each stamp design. This investment results in millions of dollars in revenue to the Postal Service each year, said Michael Miles, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service in Atlanta. Stamps introduced this year include those honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, actor Katharine Hepburn, Negro League baseball, silver screen cowboys William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, abstract expressionist artists, and comic strips such as Archie, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes. Plane is off the auction block Was the US Airways plane that went down in the Hudson River refurbished and put back in service? The “Miracle on the Hudson” plane, an Airbus A320-214, was to be sold “as is” at an auction at a salvage yard in Kearny, N.J., starting Jan. 21, 2010, but a few weeks later the listing was removed. Bids previously submitted have been suspended until further no
