If Herman Beam Had Been Sponsored by U.S. Post Office...

Saw in today's paper a photo of Kyle Petty emceeing and introducing Richard Petty at a United States Postal Service news conference in Daytona to ballyhoo a new stamp series to commemorrate the American Muscle Car. They also had a winged Dodge Charger on hand.

The ole Post Office hasn't had too great of a time with its sponsorship reputation, i.e. Lance Armstrong.

But the thought did occur to me... if Herman Beam had been successful in getting the Post Office to sponsor his car back in the day, then today we'd be able to tell stories of The Turtle Carrying Snail Mail.

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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

The U.S. Postal folks have yet to find a certain Certified Mail package containing 500 prime grandstand tickets to the 1981 Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville, Virginia that never arrived at my office in Greensboro, NC.

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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"

H. Clay Earles issued 500 new tickets to me. We had the section staked out with U.S. Postal Inspectors from Richmond & Henry County, Virginia Sheriff's deputies. No one single original ticket showed up.

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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"