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A Radiant Star Is Born
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STAR, ID — The Postal Service Monday released Radiant Star, a stamp intended for business-mail users. Showcasing easily recognizable design elements from the U.S. flag, the stamp features an eye-catching image reminiscent of the Stars and Stripes. In this vibrant graphic design, red and white stripes appear to radiate from a blue star. Designer Carol Beehler used two shades of blue for the star to give it a three-dimensional look. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for the Postal Service, provided art direction. The words “USA” and “Presorted Standard” appear along the bottom of the stamp, which will be sold in...
Literary Arts Series Spotlights Novelist Saul Bellow
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CHICAGO — Author Saul Bellow was honored today with a new stamp, the 34th in the Postal Service’s Literary Arts series. Bellow considered himself a historian of American identity, populating his books with dreamers and intellectuals searching for meaning in a materialistic, sometimes disorienting world. The subtle analysis of modern culture and immigrant experience woven through Bellow’s writings combined fierce social criticism with a comic gusto that drew in readers. Widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century, Bellow was the recipient of a record three National Book Awards, a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer Prize....
Landmark Lawmaker Lauded: Constance Baker Motley Graces USPS Black Heritage Stamp
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NEW YORK — The U.S. Postal Service today celebrated the remarkable contributions of Judge Constance Baker Motley (1921–2005), a civil rights pioneer and judiciary trailblazer, as the 47th honoree in the Black Heritage stamp series. A dedication ceremony for the stamp was held today at the Constance Baker Motley Recreation Center in New York. News about the stamps is being shared with the hashtags #ConstanceBakerMotley and #BlackHeritageStamps. A video will be posted two hours after the ceremony providing more information and insights into the stamp on the Postal Service’s Facebook and Twitter pages at facebook.com/USPS and twitter.com/usps. “Judge Motley was a brilliant legal strategist who conquered...
USPS Roars Into Lunar New Year With New Stamp
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SEATTLE — Today, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled the Lunar New Year: Year of the Dragon Forever stamp in the historic Chinatown - International District in Seattle. The Postal Service printed 22 million stamps that are now on sale at Post Offices and usps.com. Share the news on social media using the hashtags #LunarNewYearDragon and #LunarNewYearStamps. “For more than three decades, the Postal Service has issued stamps highlighting the Lunar New Year and this subject has been some of the most successful stamp releases in the long history of the Postal Service,” said Eduardo H. Ruiz, Jr., USPS vice president of retail and delivery...
USPS Reaches for Final Frontier With New Priority Mail Stamps
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GREENBELT, MD — The U.S. Postal Service today celebrates NASA’s continued exploration of deep space by issuing two new stamps featuring stunning images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. A $9.85 Pillars of Creation Priority Mail stamp is being released along with a $30.45 Cosmic Cliffs Priority Mail Express stamp. Pillars of Creation Launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Dec. 25, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most sensitive telescope ever deployed in space. Revealing the cosmos in vivid, infrared detail, it is designed to provide scientists with breathtaking images and new...