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The Postal Service announced that it printed 100 additional sheets of stamps of the recently issued Inverted Jenny stamp but with the plane flying right-side up. These very limited edition stamps were circulated with the recent issue of the most famous \u201cmisprinted\u201d stamp.\u00a0 Customers who have recently purchased the new Inverted Jenny stamp could have a very limited edition of the famous stamp.<\/p>\n
Unique to this stamp issuance, all sheets were individually wrapped in a sealed envelope to recreate the excitement of finding an Inverted Jenny when opening the envelope and to avoid the possibility of discovering a corrected Jenny prior to purchase.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are leveraging the incredible story behind the rare collectible as a creative way to generate interest in stamp collecting while highlighting the role the Post Office Department had in developing the commercial aviation industry,\u201d said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe.<\/p>\n
Individuals purchasing \u2018corrected Jenny sheets\u2019 will find a congratulatory note inside the wrapping asking them to call a phone number <\/strong>to receive a certificate of acknowledgement signed by the Postmaster General.<\/p>\n Two eerie occurrences took place surrounding the nation\u2019s first airmail flight that took place 1918. The pilot got lost<\/a>, flew in the wrong direction and crashed. And due to a printing error of the 24-cent Curtiss Jenny airmail stamp created to commemorate this historic event, the biplane was depicted flying upside down on one sheet of 100 stamps that was sold to the public.<\/p>\n In 1918, in a rush to celebrate the first airmail flight, the Post Office department issued the 24-cent Curtiss Jenny stamp. Because the design required two colors, sheets were placed on the printing press twice \u2014 first to apply red ink and a second time to apply blue ink.\u00a0 This process was given to human error \u2014 as stamp collectors at the time well knew.<\/p>\n A Washington, DC, Post Office clerk \u2014 who had never seen an airplane \u2014 sold a sheet of 100 stamps mistakenly showing the biplane upside down. For nearly a century, stamp collectors have chased the Inverted Jennys and have accounted for nearly all 100 of them.<\/p>\n The 100 sheets were distributed randomly among the nation\u2019s Post Offices and at the Postal Service\u2019s Stamp Fulfillment Center which accepts stamp orders online at usps.com\/stamps<\/em><\/a>, and by calling 800-STAMP24 (800-782-6724). Additionally, some of the 100 also were randomly distributed at ebay.com\/stamps<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Customers may view the Stamp Collecting: Inverted Jenny Forever stamps, as well as many of this year\u2019s other stamps, on Facebook at facebook.com\/USPSStamps<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> on Twitter@USPSstamps<\/em><\/a> or on the website Beyond the Perf<\/em> at beyondtheperf.com\/2013-preview<\/em><\/a>. Beyond the Perf is the Postal Service\u2019s online site for information on upcoming stamp subjects, first-day-of-issue events and other philatelic news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Postal Service announced that it printed 100 additional sheets of stamps of the recently issued Inverted Jenny stamp but with the plane flying right-side up. These very limited edition… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}