United States Postal Service Stamp News

Ever need a stamp that you can use in mailing a package by "Priority Mail"?  On January 18, 2020, the United States Postal Service will release 2 new stamps that will pay for your Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express Flat Rate shipping with a single stamp. If you're curious to know what these stamps look like. Here's a look of these 2 stamps. Big Bend "Priority Mail" Stamp. Big Bend is located in the West Texas region. The stamp depicts the Rio Grande flowing between the tall limestone cliffs of Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. Grand...

If your child wants to write to Santa Claus this year, you can mail that letter and a reply will be sent back from Santa Claus courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service! Now, don't just drop off your child's mail in the mailbox addressed to Santa Claus with a "North Pole" address written on the envelope because we all know that letters sometimes get lost in the mail.   To avoid ruining your child's letter to Santa, the U.S. Postal Service has these things to say: 1. Have your child write a letter to Santa and place it in an envelope...

President Abraham Lincoln promoted the railroad during the Civil War as a way of binding the nation. The Central Pacific Railroad Co. built the western portion of the railroad starting from Sacramento, CA. The Union Pacific Railroad Co. built the eastern section beginning from Omaha, NE. Both companies employed many workers at a time when roadbeds had to be dug and tunnels excavated without the benefit of machines.A large workforce — primarily Chinese and Irish immigrants — carried out most of the backbreaking and often dangerous work that made the achievement possible. The workforce, totaling more than 20,000 at its...

The USS Missouri earned numerous combat awards and citations during her decades of service, which also included deployments during the Korean War and Operation Desert Storm. Decommissioned for the second and final time in 1992 and removed from the Navy’s ship registry in 1995, USS Missouri now rests as a memorial and museum at the Battleship USS Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The stamp art depicts USS Missouri from a low vantage point almost at sea level, cutting through the water at a moderate speed commensurate with entering or leaving port. Large and imposing in the frame, USS Missouri...

Characterized by precise shapes rendered in bold, flat colors, Ellsworth Kelly’s art encompasses painting, sculpture and works on paper, drawing on careful observations of light and shadow, negative space and line and form. In painting shapes—like a tennis court, a smokestack on a tugboat, or the roof of a barn—as flat planes of color, Kelly removed their dimensionality and turned reality into abstraction. He was also one of the first artists to create shaped canvases and to integrate art with modern architecture, taking great care about the size of a painting, its boundaries, and its placement in relation to the...