PHILATELISTS STUCK ON BUGS BUNNY.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer Forget the critics who say Bugs Bunny is just a ``silly wabbit'' and not worthy of being a postage stamp postage stamp, government stamp affixed to mail to indicate payment of postage. The term includes stamps printed or embossed on postcards and envelopes as well as the adhesive labels. star, the cartoon legend was a hit at the Burbank post office Thursday. ``It's one of the best things the post office ever did,'' said Cameron Cave, 44, a television production engineer who works in the same facility where Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . animators drew the first Bugs in 1940. Cave was one of hundreds of Bugs fans who turned out to buy the 32-cent cartoon bunny stamps, with a bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being first-day issue cancellation seal. Burbank, the birthplace of Bugs, got a head-start on sales and was the only public post office where the first-day cancellation stamp, complete with the Warner Bros. logo, was available. The stamp will open wide at post offices across the country today. On the Warner Bros. lot, the studio held a stamp-issuance ceremony, where stamps with cancellation seals also were sold. Leanna Rosas made the trip to the Burbank post office from Valencia to get a first-day seal on behalf of her mother-in-law, who works for the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. in Alaska. ``I need to get some brownie points Brownie points are a hypothetical currency, which can be accrued by doing good deeds or earning favour in the eyes of another, often one's superior. Conjectures for etymology OED The Oxford English Dictionary ,'' she said, as she leafed through the special comic book comic book Bound collection of comic strips, usually in chronological sequence, typically telling a single story or a series of different stories. The first true comic books were marketed in 1933 as giveaway advertising premiums. and other Bugs paraphernalia that the Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval was selling along with the stamps. Bugs is the first cartoon character to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp. Some stamp-collecting groups have lambasted the Postal Service for putting Bugs in the same category as great legends of American history like Ben Franklin and the U.S. presidents. Ron Tate, another local collector, said he likes the Bugs stamp because the cartoon is a creative way to get kids into the hobby of stamp collecting. ``Back in the '40s and '50s a lot of children collected stamps,'' Tate said. Sherman Oaks stamp collector Craig King said he thinks some people are taking their hobby way too seriously and need to lighten up about Bugs. ``It's a business. The post office needs to make a profit,'' King said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Cameron Cave of Burbank was one of the first to buy a sheet of Bugs Bunny stamps at the Burbank post office Thursday. Myung J. Chun/Daily News |
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