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United States stamps - Mr. Zip’s stamps

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Mr. ZIP was a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and in the 1970s by its successor, the United States Postal Service, to encourage the general public to include the ZIP Code in all mailings.

The Post Office had little difficulty in getting mass mailers to use the ZIP Code as they could require its use in order to receive preferential mailing rates, which it soon did. However, there was some resistance to using it by the general public who occasionally mailed items, almost invariably at the full First Class Mail rate, which by regulation had to be delivered if at all possible and feasible. This was particularly true of older mailers. Mr. ZIP was the Post Office's answer to this, apparently to reach small children to know to always use the ZIP Code as they got older, and also to encourage their parents and grandparents to do so.

Mr. ZIP was a caricature of a mail carrier, wide-eyed and drawn with his letter bag trailing him in such a way as to imply his travelling at extreme speed, and sometimes holding on to his hat with his free hand. His hair was straight, but his skin was somewhat orange, making him non racially-identifiable. His limbs were very thin, almost like those of a stick figure. He was used especially on posters promoting ZIP Code use. The character seems largely to have been phased out by the late 1970s, but was copyrighted by the Post Office, which still retains all rights to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._ZIP

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Stamps with Mr. Zip

Scott No.	Date of Issue
#1242	10.1.1964	Sam Houston
#1243	19.3.1964	Charles M. Russel
#1247	15.6.1964	New Jersey Tercentenary
#1249	1.8.1964	Register and Vote
#1250	14.8.1964	Shakespeare
#1251P	11.9.1964	Drs. William and Charles Mayo
#1258	21.11.1964	Verrazano - Narrows bridge
#1260	15.12.1964	Amateur Radio
#1182	9.4.1965	Appomatox
#1262	15.2.1965	Physical Fitness - Sokol
#1263	1.4.1965	Crusade Against Cancer
#1264	13.5.1965	Churchil Memorial
#1267	2.7.1965	Salvation Army
#1268	17.7.1965	Dante Alighieri
#1269	10.8.1965	Herbert Hoover
#1271	28.8.1965	Settlement of Florida
#1273	17.9.1965	John Singleton Copley
#1308P	16.4.1966	Indiana Statehood Sesquicentennial
#1309	2.5.1966	American Circus
#1312P	1.7.1966	175th Anniversary, Bill of Rights
#1313	30.7.1966	Polish Millennium
#1315P	29.8.1966	Marine Corp Reserve
#1317	24.9.1966	American Folklore
#1319	21.10.1966	Great River Road
#1320	26.10.1966	Savings Bond - Servicemen
#1323	17.4.1967	National Grange
#1327	12.7.1967	Henry David Thoreau
#1329P	1.8.1967	Voice of America
#1333P	2.10.1967	Urban Planning
#1334P	6.10.1967	50th Anniveresary, Finnish Independence
#1336	6.11.1967	Christmas
#C70	20.3.1967	Alaska Purchase
#1339P	12.2.1968	150th Anniversary, Illinois Statehood
#1340P	30.3.1968	HemisFair '68
#1343P	17.5.1968	Law & Order
#1344	27.6.1968	Register and Vote
#1355	11.9.1968	Walt Disney
#1359P	9.10.1968	Leif Erikson
#1361	18.10.1968	John Trumbull
#1364	4.11.1968	American Indian
#1369	15.3.1969	50th Anniversary, American Legion
#1370P	1.5.1969	American Folklore - Grandma Moses
#1371	5.5.1969	Apollo 8
#1373	16.7.1969	200th Anniversary, California Settlement
#1380P	22.9.1969	Dartmouth College Case
#1383	14.10.1969	Dwight D. Eisenhower
#1385	20.11.1969	Hope for Crippled
#1386	3.12.1969	William M. Harnett
#1405	22.8.1970	Edgar Lee Masters
#1414	5.11.1970	Christmas
#1420	21.11.1970	Landing of the Pilgrims
#1421	24.11.1970	50th Anniversary, Disabled Veteransof America
#1422	24.11.1970	Honoring US Servicemen
#1423P	16.1.1971	American Wool Industry
#1424P	26.1.1971	General Douglas McArthur
#1432P	4.7.1971	American Revolution Bicentennial
#1436	28.8.1971	Emily Dickenson
#1437P	12.9.1971	450th Anniversary, San Juan, Puerto Rico
#1438	5.10.1971	Prevent Drug Abuse
#1439	27.10.1971	CARE
#1444-5	10.11.1971	Christmas
#1446P	3.2.1972	Sidney Lanier
#1447P	11.2.1972	Peace Corps
#1453	1.3.1972	National Park stem Centennial
#1455P	18.3.1972	Family Planning
#1469	9.10.1972	Osteopathic Medicine
#1470	13.10.1972	American Folklore - Tom Sawyer
#1471-2	9.11.1972	Christmas
#C84	3.5.1972	National Park stem Centennial
#1488	23.3.1973	Postal Service Employees
#1507-8	7.11.1973	Christmas
#1526	26.3.1974	Robert Frost
#1530, #1533, #1534, #1537	6.6.1974	Centenary, UPU
#1542	12.6.1974	Kentucky Settlement
#1547	23.9.1974	Energy Conservation
#1548	10.10.1974	American Folklore - Legend of Sleepy Hollow
#1549	13.10.1974	Retarded Children
#1550	23.10.1974	Christmas
#1553	10.2.1975	American Arts - Benjamin West
#1554	1.5.1975	American Arts - Paul Laurence Dunbar
#1564	17.6.1975	200th Anniversary, Battle of Bunker Hill
#1565-8	4.7.1975	Military Uniforms
#1579-80	14.10.1975	Christmas
#1629, #1631	1.1.1976	American Bicentennial
#1692-3	4.7.1976	American Bicentennial
#1695-8	16.7.1976	Olympic Games
#1699	18.8.1976	Clara Maas
#1700	18.9.1976	Adolph s. Ochs
#1704	3.1.1977	American Bicentennial
#1706-9	13.4.1977	American Folk Art - Pottery
#1711	21.5.1977	Colorado Statehood
#1716	13.6.1977	Marquis de Lafayette
#1731	6.1.1978	Carl Sandburg
#1732-3	20.1.1978	Captain Cook
#1744	1.2.1978	Black Heritage
#1753	4.5.1978	American Bicentennial
#1754	18.5.1978	Early Cancer Detection
#1755	24.5.1978	Performing Arts - Jimmie Rodgers
#1756	3.7.1978	Performing Arts - George M. Cohan
#1757d, #1757h	10.6.1978	CAPEX
#1758	26.6.1978	Photography
#1760-3	26.8.1978	American Owls
#1770	12.1.1979	Robert F. Kennedy
#1771	13.1.1979	Black Heritage
#1773	27.2.1979	John Steinbeck
#1774	4.3.1979	Albert Einstein
#1775-8	19.4.1979	American Folk Art - Pennlvania Toleware
#1779-82	4.6.1979	American Architecture
#1783-6	7.6.1979	Endangered Flora
#1788	9.8.1979	Special Olympics
#1789	23.9.1979	John Paul Jones
#1790	5.9.1979	Olympics
#1801	4.11.1979	Performing Arts - Will Rogers
#1803	29.1.1980	Performing Arts - W. C. Fields
#1804	15.2.1980	Black Heritage
#1805, #1810, 1810a	25.2.1980	Letter Writing
#1821	10.4.1980	Frances Perkins
#1823	31.5.1980	Emily Bissell
#1824	27.6.1980	Helen Keller
#1825	21.7.1980	Veterans Administration
#1826	23.7.1980	General Bernardo de Galvez
#1827-30	26.8.1980	Coral Reefs
#1831	1.9.1980	Organized Labor
#1832	5.9.1980	Edith Wharton
#1833	12.9.1980	American Education
#1834-7	25.9.1980	American Folk Art - Pacific Northwest Indian Masks
#1842	31.10.1980	Christmas
#C98	13.10.1980	Philip Mazzei
#1874	4.1.1981	Everett Dirksen
#1875	30.1.1981	Black Heritage
#1876-9	23.4.1981	Flowers
#1910	1.5.1981	American Red Cross Centennial
#1911	8.5.1981	Savings and Loan Sesquicentennial
#1912, #1915-6, #1919	21.5.1981	Space Achievement
#1921-4	26.6.1981	Preservation of Wildlife Habitats
#1926	10.7.1981	Edna St. Vincent Millay
#1932-3	22.9.1981	Athletes
#1941	5.11.1981	John Hanson
#1950	30.1.1982	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#1952	22.2.1982	George Washington
#1953, #1962, #1993, #2002	14.4.1982	State Birds and Flowers
#2010	30.4.1982	Horatio Alger
#2012	8.6.1982	Performing Arts - John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore
#2013	10.6.1982	Dr. Mary E. Walker
#2015	13.7.1982	America's Libraries
#2016	2.8.1982	Jackie Robinson
#2026	3.11.1982	Christmas
#2031	19.1.1983	Science and Industry
#2038	13.4.1983	Joseph Priestly
#2044	9.6.1983	Scott Joplin
#2046	6.7.1983	George Herman Ruth
#2047	8.7.1983	Nathaniel Hawthorne
#2053	9.9.1983	Civil Service
#2063	28.10.1983	Christmas
#2065	1.11.1983	Martin Luther
#C101-4	17.6.1983	1984 Olympic Games
#2066	3.1.1984	25th Anniversary, alaskan Statehood
#2067-70	6.1.1984	Winter Olympic Games
#2071	12.1.1984	50th Anniversary FDIC
#2072	31.1.1984	Love
#2073	1.2.1984	Carter G. Woodson
#2074	6.2.1984	Soil and Water Conservation
#2075	10.2.1984	50th Anniversary, Credit Union Act
#2081	16.4.1984	National Archives
#2082-5	4.5.1984	1984 Los Angeles Olympics
#2088	23.5.1984	Performing Arts - Douglas Fairbanks
#2089	24.5.1984	Jim Thorpe
#2090	6.6.1984	Performing Arts - John McCormack
#2091	26.6.1984	25th Anniversary, St. Lawrence Seaway
#2093	13.7.1984	Roanoke Voyages
#2094	1.8.1984	Herman Melville
#2095	6.8.1984	Horace Moses
#2096	13.8.1984	Smokey the Bear
#2097	17.8.1984	Roberto Clemente
#2102	26.9.1984	Crime Prevention
#2104	1.10.1984	Family Unity
#2105	11.10.1984	Eleanor Roosevelt
#2106	16.10.1984	Nation of Readers
#2107-8	30.10.1984	Christmas
#2109	10.11.1984	Vietnam Veterans Memorial
#2110	23.1.1985	Performing Arts - Jerome Kern
#2137	5.3.1985	Black Heritage
#2143	17.4.1985	Love
#2146	14.6.1985	Abigail Adams
#2159	1.10.1985	Public Education in America
#2165	30.10.1985	Christmas

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