Special Eagles
In 1991 the Post Office introduce Priority Mail. This included delivery within the U.S. of packages weighing up to two pounds and large envelopes in two to three days at a cost of two-dollars and ninety cents. For this service, they issued the stamp in the middle of the album page here, the one showing an eagle head with a black background. If you look closely, you’ll see that under where it has U.S.A. written are five rings, the Olympics logo. The U.S. Post Office was a sponsor of the 1992 Olympic Games.
The second large eagle stamp is use with large envelops and small packages sent by Express Mail. The charge was at that time, nine dollars and ninety-five cents. It replaces the previous and first eagle express mail stamp from 1988, which had a face amount of eight dollars and seventy-five cents (see Best Wishes).
The third eagle stamp on this album page was used for International Express Mail service, which can get an envelope delivered from the U.S. to Italy or elsewhere in Europe in four days – but sometimes much longer, depending on the efficiency of the receiving country’s postal system.
Note
When an album page has a strip of stamps like the two for the Olympics on this page, I’ve been posting the images horizontally. But this page has the long strips and the special delivery stamps, which aren’t turned the same way. I had to choose, so I went with the normal portait orientation.
Incidentally, notice that all of these stamps, even the special delivery ones have the Olympic logo on them. Good work, Leuchtturn.
Contains 15 spots: own 15 – 15 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Jul 21, 2025
Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
Summer Olympics
✓ |
2553 |
29c (jul 1991) |
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✓ |
2554 |
29c (jul 1991) |
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✓ |
2555 |
29c (jul 1991) |
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✓ |
2556 |
29c (jul 1991) |
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✓ |
2557 |
29c (jul 1991) |
Other
✓ |
2528 |
29c (apr 1991) |
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✓ |
2539 |
$1 (sep 1991) |
Express Mail
✓ |
2540 |
2.90$ (jul 1991) |
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✓ |
2541 |
$9.95 (jun 1991) |
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✓ |
2542 |
$14 (aug 1991) |
Winter Olympics
✓ |
2611 |
29c (jan 1992) |
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✓ |
2612 |
29c (jan 1992) |
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✓ |
2613 |
29c (jan 1992) |
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✓ |
2614 |
29c (jan 1992) |
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✓ |
2615 |
29c (jan 1992) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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