Flag over Porch Stamp

The Wal-Mart Dummy FoP

Wooden refrigerator magnets with strips of three dummy stamps without denomination

They were sold by Wal-Mart retail stores during Daffy Duck Day (17 April 1999), a promotion by the U.S. Postal Service in partnership with Warner. Bros and Wal-Mart.
The stamps were sold in strips of three in small mail boxes (meant to be stamp dispensers) with a magnet attached to the back. The mail boxes have one of three stamps pictured on the side: 33¢ Daffy Duck, 33¢ Bugfs Bunny, or 33¢ Sylvester & Teety.
Stamps and mailboxes were manufactured in China. The dummy stamps have no denomination and tagging. They cannot be removed from the backing paper without sigificantly being damaged.

refridge magnet with stamps

refridge magnet - image thanks to "Linn's Stamp News" 3 May 1999

refridge magnets

refridge magnets

dummystrip 1

dummy strip 1

dummystrip 2

dummy strip 2

Such a magnet was sold for $1.97 and each one had a strip of three dummy stamps attached which looked like the Flag over Porch stamp but were missing the denomination and the "USA". They were dated "1998" in red in the left lower corner.

They were firmly stuck on a backing paper and had what looked like a die cut. This cut orrurs with 9 peaks on the left and 8 on the right side and the other way round. These two versions were caused by the orientation of the "stamps" in the die cut machine as the cut is identical.

dummy perf

dummy stamp perforation

dummy die cut I

dummy die cut this way

dummy die cut II

dummy die cut the other way round

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