The Postal Service has announced two new stamp releases to celebrate the organization’s 250th anniversary.
The first release — a 32-page booklet titled “Putting a Stamp on the American Experience” — celebrates the cultural importance of U.S. stamps.
The booklet is only the fourth ever issued by the Postal Service and it highlights the popular series and subjects that give the stamp program its range and depth.
The booklet also comes with two sheets of a new stamp featuring Benjamin Franklin, the nation’s first postmaster general. The stamp is based on an 1875 reproduction of a 5-cent stamp from 1847 — one of the first official U.S. postage stamps.
The second release — a pane of 20 stamps titled 250 Years of Delivering — depicts a letter carrier on her rounds through all four seasons in cartoon form.
Both the booklet and pane are scheduled to be released in July and will be available at Post Offices and usps.com.
On July 26, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established “a line of posts” from Maine to Georgia to create a network of communications that kept Colonists’ messages from falling into the British Crown’s hands.
This postal system later became the Post Office Department and then the U.S. Postal Service.
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