In My Opinion - Postal Service destroying plate-number collecting
By Robert Rabinowitz
(Reprinted from Linn’s Stamp News, September 3, 2007, p. 46)
Despite all of the pleas from various segments of United States philately, the U.S. Postal Service announced Aug. 9 that it is going to stick to its decision made in 2006 about U.S. plate numbers.
The decision is that new plates employed in printing new stamps will continue to use only plate numbers consisting of only the digit “1,” despite more than 100 years providing consecutively numbered higher plate numbers.
The Postal Service announcement came during a meeting of stamp journalists at the American Philatelic Society’s Stampshow in Portland, Ore.