Daily printout: July 31

The Postal Service has established Central Processing Region, comprised of the Central, Lakeshores, Northern Plains, Midwest and Westshores divisions.

The new processing region will include 100 facilities and 34,600 employees who process 177 million mailpieces every day.

Todd Hawkins, previously Eastern Processing Region’s vice president, will serve as Central Processing Region’s vice president.

Dave Webster, Chesapeake Division’s processing operations senior director, will serve as Eastern Processing Region’s acting vice president.

Under the changes, announced July 9, Eastern will be comprised of six divisions (Chesapeake, Florida, New England, New York Metro, South Atlantic and Southeast), while Western will be comprised of six (Gulf South, Northwest, Pacific Coastal, Southern California, Texas and Western).

The Postal Service’s new 250 Years of Delivering stamps are se-tenant.

Do you know what that means?

As the new Stamps Forever website explains, se-tenant stamps work together as a single panoramic scene or as individual images.

Stamps of two or more designs on the same pane — or in the same booklet — are described as se-tenant, which is French for “joined together” (Americanized pronunciation: say-TEN-unt).

The 250 Years of Delivering stamps are also considered continuous-design stamps, which are se-tenants that go further: A single design continues across the boundary of one stamp onto another, or multiple others.

Once a novelty, se-tenant stamps are now released regularly. The recent Goodnight Moon, Baby Wild Animals and Battlefields of the American Revolution are all considered se-tenant stamps.

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