Mail firm issues stamps of Hitler deputy
The company said it would make every effort to avoid a repeat of the incident.
The Hess blunder was not the first time customers had tried to order stamps commemorating Nazi leaders, the spokesman said.
Earlier this year, the company intercepted a request to have stamps printed featuring Hitler as a small child, he said.
The latest delivery stemmed from a private order made in March, a few weeks before Hess's birthday, he added.
Hess, who served as Hitler's deputy before he flew to Britain in 1941 on an apparent peace mission, was tried at Nuremberg for war crimes and sentenced to life in Berlin's Spandau prison.
He was the only prisoner in the vast complex for the last 21 years and was guarded by jailers from occupying Allied powers until he committed suicide in 1987 aged 93.
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