Food Stamps

[jgm]

Just came back from the Post Office, where I bought a new book of stamps. The theme is "Crops of the Americas" and they feature some lovely renderings of peppers, corn, squash, etc.

For the foodie who has everything!

Edited to add link: click

Edited July 31, 2006 by jgm (log)

[jsmeeker]

This thread isn't what I thought it was going to be about.

[Anna N]

Hmmm - pretty! The only kind of food stamps I hope I would ever need to use. Oh wait... I can't use them in Canada.

[Katie Nell]

I bought a whole coil a couple of weeks ago! There not as pretty as my architecture ones were about a year ago, but they work! I have to have pretty stamps to mail anything!

[moosnsqrl]

Those are lovely and, wouldn't you know, I just bought a roll of 100 which will doubtless last me well into the next postal rate increase.

[MarketStEl]

This might break me out of my usual habit of purchasing Black Heritage series commemoratives...

Edited to add: Though I am not unfamiliar with those other food stamps, either.

Edited July 31, 2006 by MarketStEl (log)

[srhcb]

"Food" Stamps

Last month my friend Bob and his wife were vacationing at their lake cabin about twenty miles north of here. I was invited to visit during the week, when it's most peaceful and quiet, to have lunch and to inspect their garden.

It's my custom to bring a small gift for my host and hostess, but since I knew they were in the process of cleaning and throwing a lot of stuff away, I decided to bring something consumable.

I stopped at the Post Office on my way to the lake and saw the Garden Produce stamps. Appropriate, decorative, and useful; the perfect gift!

Food Stamps

Many years ago, while going to school, I lived with four other guys in an apartment building that could generously be described as being in "the bad part of town".

I was one of the few real cash customers at the local market. I know this because I often got my change in Food Stamps when there was no money in the till!

[BarbaraY]

Those are lovely and, wouldn't you know, I just bought a roll of 100 which will doubtless last me well into the next postal rate increase.

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Me too!

[Toliver]

I was about to toss a junkmail postcard mailer into the trash when I noticed the stamp:

The black line is the cancellation mark.

I'm jonesing for a papaya now.

[jgm]

Those are the postcard stamps, and they are just delectable!

View them here

They are the only ones currently available that have a food theme. The closest I could find otherwise was a beautiful panel on pollination, upon which we depend for fruits and vegetalbes.