Nightly News | August 23, 2012
Unsold Simpsons stamps cost USPS $1.2 million
The U.S. Postal Service had marked the 20th anniversary of “The Simpsons” by printing one billion stamps, but only 318 million were sold. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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>>> the postal service thought it was a great idea a few years back to mark the 20th anniversary of the simpsons with a commemorative stamp . they printed a billion of them and sold only 318 million of them. the extra stamps had to be destroyed because the printed price on them had changed. that wasted $1.2 million. that's the last thing they need. they're ontrack to lose an estimated $15 billion in operating costs this year.