I got this announcement in an e-mail from my aunt today. - BV

US POST OFFICE TO DESTROY AFRICAN AMERICAN STAMPS!

Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Patricia Roberts Harris are all on these stamps.

Please forward this and buy a book of our stamps ASAP.

The P.O. will DESTROY all remaining African American Heritage stamps at the end of the month instead of following their usual procedure of selling them until they are depleted.

Why? Because we're not buying them! However, our postal workers are asking patrons to complain to the Post Master, via a complaint form. Please ask for and complete the form (at the post office).

Skip the love, flag, rose or teddy- bear stamps that they offer you automatically, Request African-American stamps every time. If we don't buy them, nobody will.

We need to keep the little things that we do get.

Please send this email to all your friends so we can keep BLACK STAMPS in circulation!!!!

Wow ... I always buy Black Heritage stamps! I guess I just figured that everybody else did, too.

I will send the word out to family and friends though. I would hate to see these stamps go away.

WHAT!? I had to check out Snopes for the 411.

Crap. for some reason I can't cut & paste. Anyway. It appears to be an urban legend.

I love Black Heritage Stamps! I used my last Hattie McDaniels one the other day. When I need a pack of stamps--and am not buying from the vending machines--I usually ask for them.