Daily printout: Sept. 1

The Postal Service will spotlight its Alzheimer’s semipostal stamp in September.

Semipostal stamps are First-Class Mail stamps sold at a price above the cost of a regular stamp to raise funds for designated causes.

The Alzheimer’s release has raised more than $1.7 million since its introduction in 2017. More than 13 million Alzheimer’s stamps have been sold.

The money raised supports research and treatment of the disease at the National Institutes of Health.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. It attacks nerve cells and their connections in the brain, causing memory loss, a decrease in cognitive skills and behavioral changes. The disease is named for Alois Alzheimer, a German physician who discovered and described two hallmark signs of the disease, amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

Roughly 6.7 million older Americans are estimated to have Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control. By 2060, that figure is expected to almost double.

It is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.

The Alzheimer’s semipostal stamp features an illustration that first appeared on a 42-cent Alzheimer’s Awareness stamp released in 2008. It shows an older woman in profile with a hand on her shoulder, with the suggestion of sunlight behind her.

USPS facility leaders and employees can promote the stamp in September but must follow the organization’s rules on semipostal stamp activities.

Employees with questions about these activities should email the USPS Ethics Office.

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One coffee shop in Paris asks its customers to write a special letter — to their future selves — whenever they visit.

Guests at Café Pli can choose from a selection of papers, envelopes and writing prompts before sitting down to write this letter.

The café website offers examples for manifesting the future, whether that might be dreams, decisions or milestones. Once written, the letter is sealed, stored by the café, and sent back to the writer on a chosen future date ― maybe in months, a year, five or even 25 years later.

Addressing a “Dear Me” letter is not just the fashion in Paris.

A Space Filled With You and other cafés in Seoul, South Korea, are built around the same reflective ritual where visitors are invited to write letters to their future selves or to loved ones, with delivery scheduled months or years ahead.

If a visit to Paris or Seoul is not in cards, the idea of slowing down and writing letters is encouraged on World Letter Writing Day.

Observed every Sept. 1, the day encourages the timeless practice of writing letters by hand to connect with friends, family — or even strangers.

The day was established in 2014 by Richard Simpkin, an Australian photographer and author, who was inspired by the handwritten letters he received during his “Australian Legends” project.

The Australia-based group Eastern Suburb Moms maintains a website that promotes World Letter Writing Day and offers tips about writing letters for the day and for other occasions.

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The Postal Service wants employees to remember the federal regulations on exchanging gifts with co-workers.

To prevent someone from trying to gain the favor of management, an employee cannot accept a gift from a lesser-paid employee.

There are exceptions:

• On regularly occurring occasions, such as holidays and birthdays, an employee can give a higher-level or higher-paid employee, including their manager, a noncash gift valued at $10 or less.

• On special or infrequent occasions, such as the birth or adoption of a child, retirement, marriage, serious illness or bereavement, an employee can give a gift of any value to a higher-level or higher-paid employee if the gift is appropriate for the occasion. Group gifts, including cash, are permitted if individual contributions are voluntary and $10 or less.

• An employee can give a gift of any value to a higher-level or higher-paid employee if they have a personal relationship that justifies the gift and the employee does not report to the person receiving the gift.

A manager who makes less pay than a subordinate can give that employee a gift of any amount on any occasion, but the manager should avoid the appearance of favoritism.

More information is available on Blue.

Employees with questions can email the USPS Ethics Office or call 202-268-6346.