It’s high season for stamp releases, as a quick look at last week’s Link headlines shows.
Three new stamp releases were issued: Harriet Powers, which honors the formerly enslaved woman who turned quilting into art; and Crab Nebula and Galaxy Pair, which feature images of deep space taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. They are for Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express, respectively.
We also brought you details about the second installment in the Stamps Forever website’s “Celebrating Stamp Encore” series; this latest article focuses on the many Warner Bros. releases in last summer’s contest.
And we looked at “Two Wars: No Mail, Low Morale,” a documentary airing on PBS about the legendary 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a segregated unit of the Women’s Army Corps that famously cleared a two-year backlog of mail in six months.
And we shared some hard-won lessons about the importance of wearing seat belts and about the power of resilience, as the workers at the Altadena, CA, Post Office soldier on a year after a fire devastated their facility and routes.
“People” reported on the death of Roman King, Philadelphia’s postmaster, at the age of 55; and “Off the Clock” spotlighted Gary Harned, who paints landscapes when he’s not working as an electronic technician in Grand Junction, CO.
Finally, “Heroes” told the story of Kaitlynn Roberson, an Olean, NY, letter carrier who looked through a home’s window when she heard screaming.
The postal employee saw the customer laying at the bottom of the stairs, so she entered the home, called 911 and stayed with the woman until help arrived.
The customer was taken to a nearby hospital, where it was determined she had broken both femurs. She continues to recover.
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