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Postal Savings Plan for the purchase of United States Defense Savings Bonds
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DEFENSE POSTAL SAVINGS STAMPS
THERE ARE FIVE Defense Postal Savings Stamps-10c, 25c, 50c, $1, and $5. You may buy them at any of the larger and many of the smaller post offices. With the first purchase of each kind of stamp, excepting the 10c stamp, you will receive, free of charge, for mounting that particular kind of stamp, a Defense Stamp Album. A Savings Card will be furnished for mounting the 10c stamps.
THIS IS YOUR 25c DEFENSE STAMP ALBUM
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DEFENSE STAMP ALBUMS
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WHEN FILLED with the proper Defense Postal Savings Stamps, the different Stamp Albums will have a cash value in exchange for Defense Savings Bonds as follows:
25c Stamp Album containing 75 Defense Stamps, has total value $18.75, buys a Defense Savings Bond, worth in 10 years ,25
50c Stamp Album containing 75 Defense Stamps, has total value $37.50, buys a Defense Savings Bond, worth in 10 years ,50
,I Stamp Album containing 75 Defense Stamps, has total value $75.00, buys a Defense Savings Bond, worth in 10 years ,100
$5 Stamp Album containing 15 Defense Stamps, has total value $75.00, buys a Defense Savings Bond, worth in 10 years ,100
DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS
WHEN YOU FILL this album with 25c stamps, it will have a total value of $18.75 and it will buy a Defense Savings Bond worth, in 10 years, $25. Your postmaster will give you, or you may secure from the Treasury Department at Washington, details of the Regular Pur chase Plan, which has been adopted by many thousands of investors who are buying Savings Bonds each month and at other intervals of their choice. Under this plan you can buy as often as you please and, without penalty, stop buying at any time. But if you buy a $25 (maturity value) bond each month for 10 years and hold all your bonds, you will then own $3,000 (maturity value) of Defense Savings Bonds. These would be redeemable by your Government at the rate of $25 per bond each month for the following 10 years.
THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM
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As YOU FILL this album with 25c Savings Stamps, it rapidly will grow in value and should be guarded against loss, theft, or destruction. A good precaution is to carry your album in an envelope ad dressed to yourself, stamped and ready for mailing, with the written request on the envelope to return to you if lost. This Defense Postal Savings Plan for installment buying of United States De-
fense Savings Bonds offers a quick and easy way for every loyal man, woman, and child in this country not only to put aside funds for future personal needs, but at the same time to ~ive valuable help toward national defense. You will be surprised and much pleased to find how quickly you may through frequent purchases of Defense Savings Stamps accumulate funds for the regular purchase of Savings Bonds, and how many of these bonds you may own through these convenient partial payments.
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$18.75 TOTAL STAMP VALUE $18.75
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United States Savings Bonds
ALL United States Savings Bonds are direct obligations of the United States Government. Series E, in. tended for the smaller regular investor, may be purchased at any of the larger and many of the smaller post offices for cash or equivalent amount of Defense Savings Stamps. The actual bonds are obtained at the time of purchase.
These bonds are sold on a discount basis. For example, instead of paying $25 for a $25 bond and receiving inter est at stated intervals you pay $18.75
for a bond of $25 valuation. Held for 10 years the bond matures and upon due surrender you will receive a Gov· ernment check for $25, a 33Ya percent increase on your original investment, which is equivalent to an annual inter est rate of 2.9 percent compounded semiannually.
Defense Savings Bonds are sold in $25, $50, $100, $500, and $1,000 denominations, the purchase prices being, respectively, $18.75, $37.50, $75, $375. and $750.
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America on Guard
Form PS 333-25A
301717 '* U. S. Government Printing Office
