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Printing Postage Stamps

Want to know how stamps are printed? This video was created in 1993 for the Postal Museum’s Stamps and Stories gallery. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) shut down its 111 years of printing postage stamps on June 10, 2005. U.S. stamps are now all printed by private contractors.

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