{"id":18820,"date":"2017-03-25T08:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T13:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2017-03-25T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T13:21:07","slug":"u-s-postal-service-to-issue-new-global-forever-and-3-cent-stamps-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/03\/25\/u-s-postal-service-to-issue-new-global-forever-and-3-cent-stamps-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Postal Service to Issue New Global Forever and 3-cent Stamps this Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0&#8211; 3\/23\/17 &#8211; <\/span>The U.S. Postal Service will issue two new stamps this spring \u2014 a $1.15 Global Forever international rate stamp and a 3-cent stamp.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2017\/images\/pr17_013-1.png\" alt=\"Green Succulent Global stamp\" width=\"373\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Green Succulent Global Forever international rate stamp will be available in panes of 10 stamps to be issued April 28. It can be used to mail a 1-ounce letter to any country where First-Class Mail International service is available. The stamp features a photograph of an echeveria, a succulent native to the Americas. William J. Gicker was the art director and Greg Breeding designed the stamp with an existing photograph by Erika Kirkpatrick. The first-day-of-issue will be in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2017\/images\/pr17_013-2.png\" alt=\"The Strawberries 3-cent stamp\" width=\"329\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Strawberries 3-cent stamp will be available in coils of 10,000 -when issued May 5. It features an illustration of three ripe, red strawberries surrounded by leaves and hulls adjacent to three smaller, green strawberries in various stages of growth. A small white flower from the strawberry plant completes the picture. Art director Derry Noyes designed this stamp using an existing illustration by John Burgoyne. The first-day-of-issue will be in Acton, MA.<\/p>\n<p>Many of this year\u2019s other stamps may be viewed on Facebook at<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uspsstamps\"><em>facebook.com\/USPSStamps<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>or via Twitter<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/uspsstamps\"><em>@USPSstamps<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0&#8211; 3\/23\/17 &#8211; The U.S. Postal Service will issue two new stamps this spring \u2014 a $1.15 Global Forever international rate stamp and a 3-cent stamp. The Green Succulent Global Forever international rate stamp will be available in panes of 10 stamps to be issued April 28. It can be used to mail a 1-ounce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18820","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\/18820","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=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18821,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions\/18821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}