Recent TV, radio and Web commercials available throughout the Tampa Bay area - and Florida - have saturated the airwaves and Internet with his name.
ALL of the GOP candidates running for president said they were just like him.
They ALSO claimed that their rivals bore absolutely no resemblence to this national political icon.
So, considering the power of this famous person's name, you'd think the main post office would have plenty of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Forever stamps that allow you to use them even after postal increases.
"Well,'' as the 40th president used to begin his sentences with, that's not always the case at the city's main post office near Tampa International Airport.
On three different occasions over the past few weeks, I asked and three different postal clerks said they had run out. One employee said the United States Postal Service no longer made the stamps and they were no longer available.
Maybe I just talked to the wrong clerks.
Enola Rice, from her Tampa office as the USPS media contact for west and central Florida, said the Postal Service last year printed 100 million of the President Reagan Centential Forever stamps, which means it can always be used as postage for a one-ounce First-Class letter.
About 55 million have been sold, with another 19 million available at Post Offices across the nation, including the Tampa Main Post Office, 3501 Bessie Coleman Blvd., near the Tampa Airport, Rice said.
"If a customer desires a specific stamp that is unavailable at their local Post Office, the customer may speak with a supervisor or manager and request information as to which offices in the area may have that particular stamp available,'' Rice said in an e-mail Tuesday. "Stamps are also available for purchase online at www.usps.com or by phone at 1.800.STAMP24.''
The stamp was first issued on Feb. 10, 2011, to recognize the centennial of the birth of Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).
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