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<p>[QUOTE="NOS, post: 7938847, member: 2098"]Yes. The BEP attempted to brush off inquiries into the matter and give non-answers when asked. It took the filing of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get the BEP to give some semblance of an answer. A heavily redacted document was released but within the document it was revealed the BEP changed the source of the ink used to another vendor. </p><p><br /></p><p>So there you have it: ink from a new supplier. The BEP did not want to mix the ink used from the old supplier with the new one. This was essentially an internal matter that need not have involved the public by abruptly ceasing production of a series and starting up a new one. Instead, the BEP caused widespread confusion that resulted in endless unanswered inquiries from the public. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is the most redundant and arbitrary series change in the history of the BEP. Never before has a series changed without there being some kind of apparent difference on a note whether it be the enlargement of plate numbers, signature change, or design change, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NOS, post: 7938847, member: 2098"]Yes. The BEP attempted to brush off inquiries into the matter and give non-answers when asked. It took the filing of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get the BEP to give some semblance of an answer. A heavily redacted document was released but within the document it was revealed the BEP changed the source of the ink used to another vendor. So there you have it: ink from a new supplier. The BEP did not want to mix the ink used from the old supplier with the new one. This was essentially an internal matter that need not have involved the public by abruptly ceasing production of a series and starting up a new one. Instead, the BEP caused widespread confusion that resulted in endless unanswered inquiries from the public. It is the most redundant and arbitrary series change in the history of the BEP. Never before has a series changed without there being some kind of apparent difference on a note whether it be the enlargement of plate numbers, signature change, or design change, etc.[/QUOTE]
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