Weirdly appropriate USPS "gun" stamp

[Oro_O]

After fighting some intertia, I got around to re-upping my FFL. I used my normal method(s) of acquiring a USPS first-class stamp in this mostly digital age. Which is either:

a) Bumming one from a more organized female family or household member, or
b) When very desperate, driving to the post office and buying some all on my own (rare).

Method a) this time yielded a strangely appropriate stamp for mailing in a gun license form:

 

[Egg_Head]

The "Mighty Mo", very fitting.

 

[mrsilv04]

b) When very desperate, driving to the post office and buying some all on my own (rare).

FYI... you can buy stamps on-line at the USPS website, and they'll mail them to you for one additional dollar.

A much better alternative than driving to the Post Office (with gas now at $3+ a gallon), having to step foot inside of a Post Office, and then having to deal with those wonderful people. When I buy stamps, which is once a year.... paying $1 extra for a book of 20 stamps delivered to me, is a bargain.

 

[MasterSolenoid]

FYI... you can buy stamps on-line at the USPS website, and they'll mail them to you for one additional dollar.

A much better alternative than driving to the Post Office (with gas now at $3+ a gallon), having to step foot inside of a Post Office, and then having to deal with those wonderful people. When I buy stamps, which is once a year.... paying $1 extra for a book of 20 stamps delivered to me, is a bargain.

Look on E-Bay for the 'Forever Stamps'
You can get them for less then going rate / BUT I believe they charge Sales Tax.

 

[Oro_O]

The "Mighty Mo", very fitting.

16" rifles, 50 caliber, Mk. VII. Combined with SG radar, awesome. A ripple-fired turret could straddle a target on the first salvo at 20,000 yards (11 miles) by 1944. Ask the crew of the IJN Yamashiro how well that worked for them - albeit with 16/45's, not the same as the 16/50's as on the SoDak's or the lighter ones on the Iowa Class. I understand by the '80s they could do that same accuracy out to 20+ miles. My grandfather operated SC and SG radars in WWII in the Pacific, though not on any BBs as far as I know.

I saw it in the late '90s; it was moored in Bremerton, WA when my parents first moved to the general area. I've been to Pearl since then but not had the time to visit it again. I have been to the 16"/50 Mk. II's on the USS North Carolina - actually stronger guns than the Iowa class Mk VII's, not that popular history would let you know that.

Arguably, the finest gas guns ever built, or will ever be built. Actually, probably not arguable - just a fact.

Oh, I just remembered. I have a pic of a car of ours (and also weirdly coincidental, it's on ramps/jacks right now down by the garage getting its 4th timing belt!) next to some 16" MkII shells from a coastal artillery battery, back in 2014.

 

[alarmguy]

It amazes me some/many states require a "license" to buy a gun.
Thats a cool stamp, wish we would get back to more national interest/pride, things like that.

 

[MacManus99]

Nice stamp, cool post, and nice ES 300/330. 1/3MZ is a great engine!

 

[supton]

FYI... you can buy stamps on-line at the USPS website, and they'll mail them to you for one additional dollar.

A much better alternative than driving to the Post Office (with gas now at $3+ a gallon), having to step foot inside of a Post Office, and then having to deal with those wonderful people. When I buy stamps, which is once a year.... paying $1 extra for a book of 20 stamps delivered to me, is a bargain.

I did that, years ago, and quit when one got lost in the mail. I went in to make a complaint/deal with the issue, but the effort wasn't worth, well, the effort. Oddly enough, I've never lived more than a few miles from a post office, usually I have one within a mile or two, and almost always on my commute.

 

[wpod]

I like the USS Missouri stamp.