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USPS to release stamps, booklet to mark 250th anniversary
An early image of Benjamin Franklin will be part of the collection
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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• Beth M. Birge was named South Atlantic Division’s logistics director. She previously served as air operations field manager.
• Elizabeth Blackburn was named Midwest Division’s logistics director. She previously served as regional operations support manager.
• Roslyn Y. Bowens was named the Delaware Processing and Distribution Center’s plant manager. She previously served as the Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center’s plant manager, a position now held by Alvin L. Simuel, who previously served as the Trenton, NJ, Processing and Distribution Center’s plant manager.
• José L. Calserrada, the San Juan, PR, Processing and Distribution Center’s plant manager, was named the Jacksonville, FL, Regional Processing and Distribution Center’s acting plant manager.
• Severo Garza, the San Francisco Network Distribution Center’s plant manager, retired after 35 years with USPS.
• Bradley J. Ledford was named Gulf South Division’s logistics director. He previously served as logistics network implementation director, a position now held on an acting basis by Brandi S. Chappell, who previously served as a logistics strategic initiative project specialist.
• Barbara F. Murph was named field strategy logistics support manager. She previously served as Southeast Division’s logistics director.
• John Prisco was named New York Metro Division’s logistics director. He previously served as logistics division operations support manager.
• David E. Rupe, Westshores Division’s logistics operations manager, was named acting mail transport equipment director.
• Jason L. McCurry was named Lakeshores Division’s logistics director. He previously served as commercial airlines carrier operations director.
• Jennifer D. Szabo was named Central Division’s logistics director. She previously served as the division’s strategy implementation manager.
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“Being a third-generation Postal Service employee, it brings me tremendous pride that I am able to be here for the organization’s 250th anniversary.”
— Nicholas Silva, Providence, RI