Look closely at the new Betty White stamp and you’ll notice she’s wearing a paw print earring, symbolizing her lifelong work as an animal advocate.
Dale Stephanos, the artist who worked on the stamp, said the tiny detail came to him at breakfast.
“I was absent mindedly drawing instead of eating my eggs and looking back down at the mess I had been making in my sketchbook, I saw that at some point, I had drawn a paw print,” he said. “I had a bit of a eureka moment and thought, what if I just give Betty an earring that’s in the shape of a paw print?”
Calling all gearheads
USPS representatives searching for prospective employees met with automotive students researching employment at a job fair in California last month.
Universal Technical Institute, the Long Beach, CA, trade school that hosted the fair, has roughly 1,000 students enrolled in its 51-week auto and diesel program.
“We come here every year,” said Melissa Madere, workforce planning specialist for California 5 District. “A lot of students were not aware we have automotive mechanics.”
Anthony Hinojosa,supervisor of the Los Angeles Vehicle Maintenance Facility, was looking to fill several positions. USPS has a good case to make for itself, he said.
“Our No. 1 benefit is benefits: health benefits, vision and the Thrift Savings Plan. I don’t think anyone can compete with that,” Hinojosa said.
Motivating strong performances
Michael Hinkle III recently was sworn in as postmaster of Preston, WA, a community about 22 miles east of Seattle.
“As a postmaster, I am a jack of all trades … I like motivating my peers and craft employees to strive for better performance,” he said.
You might say Hinkle, who previously served as postmaster of Maple Falls, WA, helped inspire a performance of a different sort last July. As Link reported, Rural Carrier Lucas Wight showed up for a shadow day with the postmaster shortly before Independence Day dressed as George Washington, complete with powdered wig.
“He surprised us,” an appreciative Hinkle said of the lighthearted stunt.
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