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United States Postal Service

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Seven Stamps to Inspire Letter-Writing

Avatar photo by Taylor Michael February 21, 2023February 21, 2023

USPS Director of Stamp Services William Gicker shares a selection of standouts over the years.

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First US Stamp by Alaska Native Person Spotlights Tlingit Lore

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 15, 2021July 22, 2021

The stamp, designed by Tlingit and Athabascan artist Rico Lanáat’ Worl, features the raven as a trickster-spirit within a field of gold stars, holding the sun in his beak.

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New USPS Stamps Commemorate Four Harlem Renaissance Figures

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber May 27, 2020May 27, 2020

Stylized in soft hues, new stamps bear the likenesses of novelist Nella Larsen, philosopher Alaine Locke, historian Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and poet Anne Spencer.

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Andrew Wyeth’s Paintings Featured on New USPS Stamps

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 27, 2017June 27, 2017

Andrew Wyeth’s melancholic paintings of rural American life will soon be available as postage stamps, released on the centennial of his birth. 

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Reveal the Bright Side of the Moon with a Heat-Activated Solar Eclipse Stamp

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 4, 2017May 4, 2017

The USPS is releasing a stamp to commemorate the coming solar eclipse. It manifests a luminous moon at the touch of a finger.

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One Artist’s Plan to Save the US Postal Service

by Jillian Steinhauer April 17, 2014April 17, 2014

The United States Postal Service is in crisis: hemorrhaging money, searching for ways to fix the situation and being blocked by Congress, inching towards privatization. What can any of us do about? Not much, except send more mail. That’s the idea behind artist Jennie Ottinger’s new project, called, cleverly, “Postal Mortem.”

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