Friday, September 12, 2025
Bringing in the season with flora and fauna
Holiday Cheer stamps arrive Sept. 13
The Postal Service will release its Holiday Cheer stamps on Saturday, Sept. 13.
Each of the four stamps features mixed-media illustrations highlighting seasonal flora and fauna in vivid shades of red and green:
• Three scarlet amaryllis flowers with bright green stalks tied together with a red ribbon;
• A holiday wreath with various shades of green leaves interspersed with holly berries and a large red bow at the top;
• A yellow Bartlett pear, a red pomegranate and a reddish-orange clementine nestled against the branch of an evergreen tree; and
• Two crimson cardinals perched on a mistletoe branch.
Derry Noyes, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps featuring collages by Denise Fiedler.
The artist used acrylic paints on paper from a vintage gardening book before cutting, layering and pasting shapes onto cotton board to craft each image.
A dedication ceremony will be held at the National Postal Museum in Washington, DC.
The Forever stamps will be available in booklets of 20 at Post Offices and on usps.com.
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People
They’re making their mark
A postmaster and a letter carrier help celebrate the Postal Service’s 250th anniversary
Postmaster Telyna Hope Jenkins is helping the Glendora, NJ, Post Office celebrate the Postal Service’s 250th anniversary celebration by offering a commemorative pictorial postmark.
Glendora is one of the 60 offices that are offering the special postmark this summer and fall. Each office has existed since the U.S. postal system began on July 26, 1775.
At Glendora and the other offices, requests for the postmark are arriving from around the world.
“It is so exciting,” said Jenkins.
One request came from as far away as China. Another was sent by a 20-year-old customer who is collecting postmarks from all 60 of the original Post Offices.
“Every day, I look forward to checking the mail, wondering where the next letter will come from,” Jenkins said.
Postal poster star
Mia Gabriel, a San Diego letter carrier, said she is delighted to be one of the employees featured on the Postal Service’s 250th anniversary workplace poster.
The poster, released in July, shows Gabriel behind the wheel of a next-generation delivery vehicle. The image was created when Gabriel was featured in the organization’s 2022 “We Go Everywhere” promotional campaign.
Gabriel had friends in other cities text her pictures of the poster hanging in their workplaces.
“This is so amazing and so fun to see,” she said. “I love my job and it’s so good to represent in such a positive way. It’s unreal to see my pictures up there.”
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Learn more about William F. Buckley Jr.
A new video discusses the stamp subject’s life and career
The Postal Service has released a video to promote its William F. Buckley Jr. stamp.
The stamp honors the influential conservative writer, political commentator, novelist and host of the long-running public television series “Firing Line.”
Sam Tanenhaus, a Buckley biographer, is featured in the three-minute video, along with Isaac Cronkhite, the USPS chief processing and distribution officer who spoke at the stamp’s Sept. 9 dedication ceremony.
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News Quiz
Safety first
How much do you know about protecting USPS information and equipment?
“News Quiz” is a weekly feature that lets you test your knowledge of recent Link stories. The correct answers appear at the end.
1. Which of the following is not recommended for a Postal Service employee or contractor to protect the organization’s information and equipment?
a) Keep their badge visible at all times.
b) Lock their cabinets and drawers.
c) Never take their USPS laptop home.
d) Shred sensitive and sensitive-enhanced documents.
2. What should employees do when they have USPS car and truck batteries to recycle?
a) Contact their facility’s vehicle battery supplier.
b) Deliver the batteries to the closest U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office.
c) Mail them to the Topeka, KS, Material Distribution Center.
d) Send them to the Atlanta Mail Recovery Center.
3. How large is the Dominick V. Daniels Processing and Distribution Center in Kearny, NJ, where Jacqueline Thomas is the plant manager?
a) 820,000 square feet
b) 890,000 square feet
c) 940,000 square feet
d) 1 million square feet
4. What was one of the numbers USPS manager Abby Martin performed on fiddle as part of the organization’s 250th anniversary celebration in Washington, DC?
a) “Cumberland Gap”
b) “Lazy John”
c) “Old Joe Clark”
d) “St. Anne’s Reel”
5. While delivering a package, what did San Francisco Carrier Technician Joseph Kornack do when he came upon a woman who had fainted on the sidewalk?
a) He ran to the woman’s home to alert her daughter.
b) He held the woman’s head off the ground while her daughter called 911.
c) He called 911 and administered CPR.
d) He yelled for help and a neighbor called 911.
Answers: 1) c. 2) a. 3) d. 4) c. 5) b.
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Bringing in the season with flora and fauna
Holiday Cheer stamps arrive Sept. 13
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People
They’re making their mark
A postmaster and a letter carrier help celebrate the Postal Service’s 250th anniversary
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Learn more about William F. Buckley Jr.
A new video discusses the stamp subject’s life and career
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News Quiz
Safety first
How much do you know about protecting USPS information and equipment?