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Classic Mail Transportation:
Depot-Hack Type Automobile

Acrylic on canvas

Artist: Mark Hess
Art director: Richard Sheaff
First day of issue: November 19, 1989


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When the United States hosted the Universal Postal Congress in 1989, more than a thousand delegates from other nations converged on Washington, D.C. This design, issued during the event as part of a special souvenir sheet, commemorates the humble beginnings of motorized mail delivery.
 
   

 

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