Last week, Link looked inside a new exhibition at the Smithsonian that dives deep into lowrider culture.
“El Rey” — a 1963 Chevy Impala and one of five cars featured on the Postal Service’s Lowriders stamps — is on display at the National Museum of American History. The car boasts air-brushed and painted murals, a digital dashboard, custom candy-red paint and etched chrome details.
In other philatelic news, the Postal Service released a new stamp honoring 150 years of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and is reissuing a special cancellation to mark “Thinking of You” week, which encourages people to send handwritten notes and letters.
Link offered reminders on the ins and outs of the Hatch Act, which outlines the limits of federal employees’ political participation, and stressed the importance of quickly reporting suspicious cyber activity.
And we ran a story from The Eagle magazine on Carri Honz, a lead retail associate in Lincoln, NE, who volunteers with the Raptor Conservation Alliance to rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned birds of prey.
Finally, in “Heroes,” Letter Carrier Francisco Tran was delivering mail in Sacramento, CA, when he saw a woman on the ground after crashing her bicycle. The USPS employee called 911 and stayed with the woman, who appeared to be having a seizure, until paramedics arrived.
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