posted September 5, 2008
) The carrier card for these duck stamps had an incorrect phone number on it. |
The Fish and Wildlife Service, which administers the program, printed about 3.5 million duck stamps attached to cards with a telephone number for ordering additional stamps. Due to two reversed numbers, people who call the printed number are instead connected to a phone-sex line.
USFWS spokeswoman, Rachel Levin, said it would cost $300,000 to reprint them and the agency feels it would be smarter to use that money for wildlife conservation. Therefore the error won't be corrected until next year.
The error is limited to self-adhesive versions of the stamps, like you might buy at Walmart.
The moistened version, which is printed in much smaller numbers, does not come with a carrier card.
The government uses a contractor, Ashton Potter Security Printers of Williamsville, New York, to print the duck stamps. Levin said she did not know whether the error was made by the government or by the company.
However a company spokesman said they were provided with the wrong telephone number.
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