Show Us Postally Used Postal Stationery: Priority, Express And Priority-Express

I looked at various search topics and did not find this subject matter. Lots about Star Wars postage stamps, but not the Star Wars Postal Stationery for Express Mail nor other examples of Priority or Express postal Stationery.

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I decided to start this thread to allow folks to post examples of postally used, not FDC (unless it passed through the mail with correct service rendered for commercial usage) and uprated examples of the envelope are fine.

I will start with the illustrated item which I do not own. I tried but was just an underbidder on eBay item number:156667639710 which sold today for $61.00 plus costs. It was used to Guam which adds some interest.



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Hi Parcelpostguy, thank you for posting this. I love these flat-rate stamped envelopes - I have a set of these myself.

The star wars envelopes are some of my favorite postal stationary items that USPS created, and probably the very reason why I started collecting postal stationary back in the early 2000's. Thank you again sir.

Ask Mystic Stamp Company.

That bid doesn't surprise me at all, given the high purchase cost and the comparatively few Express Mail envelopes that would have been sent in this manner... even in 2007, labels had become the norm, whether over-the-counter or institutional Express mailings (which is where the lion's share of Express mail uses occur).

Granted, the collector base for postal stationery is comparatively small, but I think items like this would be a great long-term hold if you can find them inexpensively (unlikely, but I can see them turning up in carton lots eschewed as 'modern commercial mail').

Popular subject matter (Star Wars), plus unusual destination (Guam) makes the final price pretty easy to understand. After all, it only takes two collectors who decide they have to have it.......