{"id":10532,"date":"2015-04-02T07:06:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10532"},"modified":"2015-04-02T07:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:08:57","slug":"usps-kicks-off-national-card-and-letter-writing-month-with-cool-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/04\/02\/usps-kicks-off-national-card-and-letter-writing-month-with-cool-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Kicks-Off National Card and Letter Writing Month with Cool Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USPS Kicks-Off National Card and Letter Writing Month with Cool Stamps and National Classroom Writing Program<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018From Me to You\u2019 Limited Edition Forever Stamps First in USPS History to be issued with Decorative Stickers<\/h3>\n

USPS News – April 01, 2015<\/p>\n

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High-resolution images of the stamp is available for media use only by emailing:<\/em>mark.r.saunders@usps.gov<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Postal Service celebrates April as National Card and Letter Writing Month by issuing colorful Forever stamps sheets complete with decorative stickers for personalizing envelopes, letters and greeting cards. The Postal Service is collaborating with Scholastic<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>to provide an\u00a0<\/span>educators\u2019 guide on teaching letter writing<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>titled, \u201cIt\u2019s a Delight to Write,\u201d that will be distributed to 80,000 teachers and 7.3 million parents nationwide.<\/p>\n

The first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony took place today at the Friendship Public Charter School – Woodridge Campus in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

\u201cSure, email and texting is quick and convenient, and Facebook has photos and videos, but nothing beats the thrill and excitement of opening your mailbox and finding a personal letter addressed to you,\u201d said U.S. Postal Service Judicial Officer William Campbell in dedicating the stamps.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetter writing improves social and penmanship skills. More importantly, it helps create lasting memories with the people you care about most. That\u2019s what the\u00a0<\/span>From Me to You<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>stamps are all about. After all, nothing else cultivates a romance, nurtures a friendship, or helps you stay connected like a hand-written card or letter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joining Campbell in the dedication ceremony were Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC); and Senior Director of Scholastic Classroom and Community Group Dominique Young; and Founder and Chairman of Friendship Public Charter School Donald Hense. Radio One DC News Director and Community Affairs Director Ebony McMorris served as master of ceremonies.<\/p>\n

\u201dFor many of today\u2019s tech-savvy kids, the art of hand writing letters has been cast aside for more immediate digital forms of communication,\u201d said Young. \u201cWe are thrilled to be working with the Postal Service to create a program that helps students return to a more personal and meaningful way to reach out.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Letter writing connects us in a way that more recent forms of communication cannot,\u201d said Hense. \u201cEspecially for our young people, it is imperative to learn how to communicate with others.\u201d<\/p>\n

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USPS Kicks-Off National Card and Letter Writing Month with Cool Stamps and National Classroom Writing Program \u2018From Me to You\u2019 Limited Edition Forever Stamps First in USPS History to be issued with Decorative Stickers USPS News – April 01, 2015 High-resolution images of the stamp is available for media use only by emailing:mark.r.saunders@usps.gov WASHINGTON \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10535,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions\/10535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}