New U.S. postal stamps to support conservation

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Beginning in September 2011, a new stamp series featuring endangered wildlife will be issued by the United States Postal Service. Stamps will cost eleven cents more than a regular stamp, with the additional money benefitting wildlife conservation. Like many recent stamp series, they will come in sheets of twenty.

Here is an official announcement from the AZA website (with a mockup of the amur tiger cub stamp - very cool).

New Semipostal Stamp to Help Save Vanishing Species - Association of Zoos and Aquariums
 
If you read down to the bottom of the press release, there is a chart showing the organizations that make up the Species Coalition that helped pass this. Some interesting bedfellows, to say the least.

Int'l Fund for Animal Welfare and Born Free USA (both very anti-zoo) alongside the AZA (a zoo coalition) alongside Feld Entertainment (creator of circus type shows) alongside Safari Club International (a trophy hunting organization).
 
I don't want to seem against conservation (I'm not), but the US Postal Service is failing so quickly, can they really afford to donate this much money to conservation. Just seems like a pretty stupid idea with them bleeding for money.
 
That is why they cost eleven cents more than a regular stamp. The extra eleven cents goes to conservation and the remaining amount they keep, which is the same amount they would get for any first class stamp.
 
Arizona Docent said:
That is why they cost eleven cents more than a regular stamp. The extra eleven cents goes to conservation and the remaining amount they keep, which is the same amount they would get for any first class stamp.
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Sorry, I misunderstood. Thanks for pointing that out.
 
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