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'Forever' stamps - stamps which you can buy at today's price yet use to mail a first-class letter even after postal rates increase - have always had the word 'forever' on them.

I doubt the 'forever' on my Lady Liberty Forever Stamps meant that I could use it forever, but the 'forever' on the Emancipation Forever Stamps was cleverly drawn from "then, thenceforward, and forever free."

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

44 posted on 01/02/2013 3:44:16 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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Well, "Freedom Forever" "Liberty Forever" was sort of the same thing, but I guess you just didn't notice, being so depressingly literal-minded.

The first "forever stamps" were those "First Class Forever" Liberty Bell stamps -- not much ambiguity there.

47 posted on 01/02/2013 4:36:27 PM PST by x
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