Daily printout: Dec. 16

The Postal Service’s 2026 Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express stamps will feature deep space images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Crab Nebula, the Priority Mail stamp, will spotlight one of the brightest remnants of an exploded star in the known cosmos. The Crab Nebula is located 6,500 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Taurus.

The stamp will be denominated at the new Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope rate.

Galaxy Pair, the Priority Mail Express stamp, will show a view of two interacting galaxies, IC 2163 and NGC 2207, located approximately 80 million light-years from Earth.

The stamp will be denominated at the new Priority Mail Express Flat Rate Envelope rate.

Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed both stamps using NASA photos.

USPS announced the stamps this week. They will be released next year and will be available at Post Offices and on usps.com.

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The Postal Service is reminding fleet managers and drivers to always buy fuel from stations in the USPS Preferred Fueling Network to help keep the organization’s costs down.

The network, known as PFN, has more than 29,000 retail fuel sites across more than 40 brands, including 7-Eleven, Casey’s Circle K, Cumberland Farms, RaceTrac, Sheetz, Speedway and Wawa.

It’s especially important to use the PFN during the holiday season, which brings heavier routes and higher demand.

Managers and drivers should only purchase regular unleaded fuel.

For more information, email the fuel network team.

The Postal Service is reminding employees that they can accept gifts of books and other informational materials from outside sources — under certain conditions.

Informational materials are writings, recordings, documents, records or other items that are educational or instructive. They are not primarily created for entertainment, display or decoration, and they must somehow relate to an employee’s official duties or to the Postal Service.

Under federal ethics rules, an employee can accept unsolicited gifts of informational materials if the total market value of those gifts is less than $100 in a calendar year. If the value exceeds $100, the employee should contact the USPS Ethics Office for guidance.

For books or similar items that are not informational materials, an employee can accept an unsolicited gift valued at $20 or less from an outside source if the value of all accepted gifts from that source does not exceed $50 in a calendar year.

Employees with questions should email the ethics team, call 202-268-6346 or go to the Ethics Blue page. Employees can also download the USPS Ethics App.