Definitions for "Bureau of Engraving and Printing"
Keywords:  bep, treasury, engraves, postage, stamp
a division of the US Treasury Department with production facilities in Washington DC that produced almost all stamps from 1894 through the 1960s. Since 1967 the BEP has shared the production of stamps with a wide variety of private companies.*Bureau Precancel stamp with the precancel applied at the BEP, as opposed to a stamp with the precancel applied locally. Bureau Print - see Bureau Issue.
a division of the U.S. Treasury Department with production facilities in Washington, D.C. producing almost all stamps from 1894 through the 1960s. Since 1967 the BEP shared the production of stamps with a wide variety of private companies. Production of stamps by the BEP ended in 2005.
The BEP is the largest producer of security documents in the United States. In addition to the billions of Federal Reserve Notes produced each year, the BEP is responsible for several other specialty printing products, such as postage stamps for the United States Postal Service, hand engraved invitations on behalf of the White House, and various miscellaneous security documents for other government agencies.