COVER N. 460 - USA

Postmark: Juneau AK Kindred Post CPU USPS-99801 09.05.2024

Posted on the 9th May; received on the 29th May 2024

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The yellow school bus. Another Iconic image from America...and just to make sure i don't miss it, I got 7 of them, all in one go 😀.

Ravindra, it seems, took the Northern route with a stop in Alaska, from where the cover was  sent. Bohomȧ  sthoothi, Ravindra!

I if understand it correctly, "additional ounce" stamps are used to complement forever stamps, which are valid for a 1 ounce letter. as such if the letter weighs 5 ounces you could use 1 forever stamp and complement it with 4 "additional ounce" stamps, since they are cheaper than the regular "forever" stamp.

Conversely, They can also be used to fully post a letter, just like Ravindra did,  and I quite like the end result, with 7 school buses driving the letter across the American continent and the Atlantic Ocean to finally stop by my door.

We all are aware that school buses in the USA are yellow and have a somewhat standard model, what most of us don't know (well I didn't until today... that's the beauty of stamps, right?) is that the yellow school bus was the brainchild of educator  Frank W. Cyr (1900 – 1995) and I would highly recommend the reading of this little BBC this short BBC article, which tells it all about the history of this Icon of Americana.

The Yellow School Bus additional ounce self-adhesive stamp was issued by USPS on 05JAN2023.

As mentioned before, the letter was posted at Juneau, the Capital of the State of Alaska.