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Urban Legend

The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries. 

The power of a rumor is just amazing."
RUNS :02

It's a rumor the Postal Service just can't quash. An Internet message or newspaper story 
says there will be no more black history stamps. Not true, says community relations 
manager Cynthia Puryear.

"The Black Heritage commemorative stamp series is our...one of our most popular. It is 
most certainly going to be continued."
RUNS :06

There's another variation...that says the Postal Service is destroying Black Heritage 
stamps it's already issued.

"Absolutely not. It is not even our policy to destroy stamps while they remain available 
for sale."
RUNS :05

Right now, there are two stamps in the series that should be on sale: Thurgood Marshall 
from last year and Paul Robeson.

That there are rumors about the Black Heritage series and not others, such as Literary 
Arts, probably shows the depth of feeling about this series.

It's just amazing how this keeps recirculating over and over and over again, and hitting 
the same people over and over and over again."
RUNS :08

And that's Stamp Collecting this week. I'm Lloyd de Vries, CBS News. 
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"The power of a rumor is just amazing."
RUNS :02

It's a rumor the Postal Service just can't quash. An Internet message or newspaper story 
says there will be no more stamps in its black history series. Not true, says community 
relations manager Cynthia Puryear.

"The Black Heritage commemorative stamp series is our...one of our most popular. It is 
most certainly going to be continued."
RUNS :06

There's another variation...that says the Postal Service is destroying Black Heritage 
stamps it's already issued.

"Absolutely not. It is not even our policy to destroy stamps while they remain available 
for sale."
RUNS :05

Right now, there are two stamps in the series that should be on sale: Thurgood Marshall 
from last year and Paul Robeson.

That there are rumors about the Black Heritage series and not others, such as Literary 
Arts, probably shows the depth of feeling about this series. The Postal Service agrees 
with that.

"It is something that we really enjoy doing. We are really committed to honoring the 
achievements and contributions of these African-Americans on stamps."
RUNS :08

But the rumor lives on....

It's just amazing how this keeps recirculating over and over and over again, and hitting 
the same people over and over and over again."
RUNS :08

I'm Lloyd de Vries

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