{"id":20892,"date":"2017-09-08T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20892"},"modified":"2017-09-08T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:11:05","slug":"postal-service-to-dedicate-christmas-carols-forever-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/09\/08\/postal-service-to-dedicate-christmas-carols-forever-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service to Dedicate Christmas Carols Forever Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Christmas<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
What:<\/strong><\/td>\nFirst-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony for Christmas Carols Forever stamps. Please share the news using the hashtag\u00a0#HolidayStamps.<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Who:<\/strong><\/td>\nU.S. Postal Service Brand Marketing Executive Director Christopher Karpenko
\nAmerican Philatelic Society American Philatelist Editor Jay Bigalke
\nU.S. Postal Service Stamp Services Director Mary-Anne Penner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When:<\/strong><\/td>\nThurs., Oct. 5 @ noon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Where:<\/strong><\/td>\nAmerican Stamp Dealers Assn. Fall Stamp Show
\nNew York Hilton Midtown<\/em><\/a>
\n1335 Avenue of the Americas
\n6th Ave. and West 53rd St.
\nNew York, NY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Background:<\/strong><\/td>\nThe \u00a0U.S. Postal Service celebrates the Holiday season with four new Forever stamps featuring images that illustrate a major theme of each of four beloved Christmas carols: \u201cJingle Bells,\u201d \u201cDeck the Halls,\u201d \u201cSilent Night\u201d and \u201cJolly Old Saint Nicholas.\u201d Familiar lines from each song highlight the individual stamps. The shades of blue in the backgrounds of the stamps evoke the evening scenes from the four carols. This booklet of 20 stamps includes five of each design. The late Howard E. Paine was the art director. Artist Steve McCracken of Winchester, VA, created original art for the project.<\/p>\n

The stamps may be pre-ordered in early Sept. for delivery shortly after the Oct. 5 issuance at\u00a0usps.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What: First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony for Christmas Carols Forever stamps. Please share the news using the hashtag\u00a0#HolidayStamps. Who: U.S. Postal Service Brand Marketing Executive Director Christopher Karpenko American Philatelic Society American Philatelist Editor Jay Bigalke U.S. Postal Service Stamp Services Director Mary-Anne Penner When: Thurs., Oct. 5 @ noon Where: American Stamp Dealers Assn. Fall Stamp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20892","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\/20892","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=20892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20893,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20892\/revisions\/20893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}