Postmaster Telyna Hope Jenkins is helping the Glendora, NJ, Post Office celebrate the Postal Service’s 250th anniversary celebration by offering a commemorative pictorial postmark.
Glendora is one of the 60 offices that are offering the special postmark this summer and fall. Each office has existed since the U.S. postal system began on July 26, 1775.
At Glendora and the other offices, requests for the postmark are arriving from around the world.
“It is so exciting,” said Jenkins.
One request came from as far away as China. Another was sent by a 20-year-old customer who is collecting postmarks from all 60 of the original Post Offices.
“Every day, I look forward to checking the mail, wondering where the next letter will come from,” Jenkins said.
Postal poster star
Mia Gabriel, a San Diego letter carrier, said she is delighted to be one of the employees featured on the Postal Service’s 250th anniversary workplace poster.
The poster, released in July, shows Gabriel behind the wheel of a next-generation delivery vehicle. The image was created when Gabriel was featured in the organization’s 2022 “We Go Everywhere” promotional campaign.
Gabriel had friends in other cities text her pictures of the poster hanging in their workplaces.
“This is so amazing and so fun to see,” she said. “I love my job and it’s so good to represent in such a positive way. It’s unreal to see my pictures up there.”
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