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conservatively assume that this set of stamps may wellhave produced a greater revenue to the British Govern-ment than the profit made by either the authors of thebook or the producers of the motion picture.
Since 1921 the United States Post Office has main-tained a Philatelic. Agency at Washington, D.C., for thesole purpose of supplying unused postage stamps to col-lectors. In recent years these sales have amounted toover three million dollars each year. The first year of itsoperation the Agency grossed only about fifty thousanddollars! To date, the gross sales of the Agency havetotaled over fifty million dollars. This represents moneypaid at face value for postage stamps, almost all of whichwill never be put to use—a source of clear profit to thePost Office Department! |
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