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Show STAMP COLLECTORS RUSH BOISE OFFICE The extent of stamp collecting i in the world today is indicated in an unofficial report by Boise postal workers that on the first day of the sale of Idaho statehood stamps some 370,000 "covers'' passed through the department's hands. A cover is the philatelists' name for an envelope, addressed to him and sent lo the scene, where some stamp will make its world bow, to be stamped, cancelled and placed plac-ed in the mail. It was said that requests were received fer this cover from all parts of the world, even warring nations, as well as a tremendous demand from the United States. Postal officials boasted that the remarkable part of the w hole business busi-ness was that in handling these thousands of orders where in some cases there was overpay ment and in others underpay ment, the net result showed a discrepancy dis-crepancy of less than $1 on the entire receipts. The total receipts from covers would approximate $10,000, it was estimated. |