Thanks to Jim Matyasovich, who recently received his standing order from UNPA, we now know that the true first day of the World Space Week United Nations personalized stamp sheet is 25 October 2007. On the UNPA website, 4 October 2007 is stated as the "issued on" date and in other published sources, such as Scott's online and Linn's, 1 October 2007, was stated as the release date. Obviously, this has caused considerable confusion. It took a while for Jim to receive his standing order as these had to be sent over to Vienna for the "working day" first day cancel, and then back to New York for processing. Jim has confirmed the first day with UNPA. These sheets sold out in just over two weeks!
The decision to change these sheets from the announced 41¢ stamps to 0.65 stamps was made very late in the production cycle. This may have caused delays in release, since the sheet is commemorating an event that occurred several weeks earlier.
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