Another Post office offering!

[Mr.Biggs]

Wow! This is cool. If you remember awhile back - I wrote about the neat plaque I got from the local post office that features the Studebaker stamp artwork on it. Well, they've gone one better.
I went in to the PO today to get a money order for some stuff I got off ebay. The gal I usually deal with was excited to tell me that she'd saved me something that they'd recently gotten in. I thought maybe it was another plaque or maybe one of the key fobs but instead it's this neat piece of artwork that's accompained by a first day cover on a special envelope and all in a mat and ready to frame. $20 dollars later I was headed home with it.
Pretty cool of her to remember me and my mania for Studebakers.


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1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS

[DilloCrafter]

I see you took that orange shag carpeting off of your walls

1955 1/2 Ton Pickup

[Dick Steinkamp]

quote:Originally posted by Mr.Biggs

Wow! This is cool. If you remember awhile back - I wrote about the neat plaque I got from the local post office that features the Studebaker stamp artwork on it. Well, they've gone one better.
I went in to the PO today to get a money order for some stuff I got off ebay. The gal I usually deal with was excited to tell me that she'd saved me something that they'd recently gotten in. I thought maybe it was another plaque or maybe one of the key fobs but instead it's this neat piece of artwork that's accompained by a first day cover on a special envelope and all in a mat and ready to frame. $20 dollars later I was headed home with it.
Pretty cool of her to remember me and my mania for Studebakers.

<h4>Pretty neat!!

Same car here on one of my Loewy prints...



-Dick-</h4>

[Roscomacaw]

Yup, That carpet shor looks gud inside my 58 Provincial tho![^]

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1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS

[Hawk5619]

I have been using the studie stamps for my special christmas cards but I need one of those prints!
I will have to go to my small town post office tomorrow to see if they can get me one!

Rick
50 Champion
60Lark
63 Hawk

[Roscomacaw]

The item number on the wrapper of this thing is 23176934 in case your Post Office pleads ignorant - which I guess alot of them do! We got good folks workin' in our office tho!

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1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS

[Guest]

Thanks for the pic and info, Bob! It's on my 'Santa's list' now!

[raprice]

Mr. B,
Thanks for filling us in. I'm going to my local P.O. to see if I can get one of those posters.
Nice job.
Rog

[Guest]

By the way, you can also order the Studebaker stamp key chain and lapel pins at www.usps.com.

[bentlee]

Our post office in Casper, WY doesn't have anything with this number.
The key chains are also on backorder throught the USPS website.

Bentlee
61 Hawk

Brent Lee
61 Hawk

[Roscomacaw]

Brent, boy I spent a fair amount of time this morning, trying to get this item to reveal itself on the USPS websites. [8] It's not there! Not it or the others I saw hanging on the post office wall the other day (the T-bird and the Kaiser Darrin editions).
I've got to go back to the PO today. I'll ask and see how they got them.

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1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS

[Dick Steinkamp]

quote:Originally posted by Mr.Biggs

Brent, boy I spent a fair amount of time this morning, trying to get this item to reveal itself on the USPS websites. [8] It's not there! Not it or the others I saw hanging on the post office wall the other day (the T-bird and the Kaiser Darrin editions).
I've got to go back to the PO today. I'll ask and see how they got them.

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1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS

I wrote the PO an eMail when Biggs posted his "score" last week. They provided me a phone number to order what I described. I called the number. The PO employee that answered the phone said she didn't know anything about the part number Biggs provided or the product by the description I gave her AND that they ONLY sold stamps over the phone anyhow. I passed this info on in my response to the eMail reply I rcd from the PO. No answer (not sure I expected one).

Do you think the PO would stay in biz if they had competition? I wonder what the price of first class postage would be if products like this were actually marketed and sold by the PO.

If you find out a way to order, Mr. Biggs, plz pass it on.

Thanks,
-Dick-

[Dan White]

I tried when the plaques were announced to find them and the gal at the PO tried and failed to find anything. She gave me a Phone number and website, both were useless. I think this stuff is being done out of the back of the local PO for some extra bucks for the employees, sure does not seem to be anything there.

Dan White
64 R1 GT
64 R2 GT

[bonehead007]

Maybe when they raise their rates again next year, they'll think more clearer..

[Roscomacaw]

My "contact" at the post office wasn't there today The young feller that I dealt with seemed bothered that I asked him about it. I could have understood if there'd been a long line a-waiting, but there wasn't.[8]

Miscreant at large.

1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS