{"id":22066,"date":"2017-12-28T09:45:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22066"},"modified":"2017-12-28T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T14:45:55","slug":"postal-service-to-celebrate-2018-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/12\/28\/postal-service-to-celebrate-2018-lunar-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service to Celebrate 2018 Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What:<\/strong><\/td>\nThe U.S. Postal Service rings in 2018 with the Year of the Dog Forever stamp. It\u2019s the 11th of 12 stamps in the Celebrating Lunar New Year series. The Year of the Dog begins Feb. 16, 2018, and ends Feb. 4, 2019. The event is free and open to the public. Please share the news using the hashtag\u00a0#LunarNewYear<\/em><\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Who:<\/strong><\/td>\nLarry Mu\u00f1oz Jr., vice president Area Operations (A) \u2013 Pacific Area,
\nU.S. Postal Service
\nDouglas D.L. Chong, president, Hawaii Chinese History Center
\nPamela Young, \u201cMixed Plate,\u201d KHON2 TV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When:<\/strong><\/td>\nThursday, Jan. 11, 2018, 11:00 a.m., Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Where:<\/strong><\/td>\nChinatown Cultural Plaza
\n100 N. Beretania Street
\nHonolulu, HI 96817<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Background:<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Lunar New Year is the most important holiday of the year for many Asian communities around the world and is celebrated primarily by people of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tibetan, and Mongolian heritage.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Postal Service introduced its Celebrating Lunar New Year series in 2008. The series will continue through 2019 with a stamp for the Year of the Boar. Year of the Dog is being issued as a souvenir sheet of 12 self-adhesive Forever stamps.<\/p>\n

Art director Ethel Kessler worked on the series with illustrator Kam Mak, a Hong Kong-born artist who grew up in New York City\u2019s Chinatown and now lives in Brooklyn. The artwork focuses on some of the common ways the Lunar New Year holiday is celebrated. The Year of the Dog illustration, originally created using oil paints on panel, depicts an arrangement of lucky bamboo\u00a0(Dracaena braunii)<\/em>. To the right is a lozenge-shaped piece of red paper with the Chinese character\u00a0fu<\/em>, meaning good fortune, rendered in calligraphy \u2014 a common decoration on doors and entryways during Lunar New Year festivities.<\/p>\n

Kessler\u2019s stamp design also incorporates two elements from the previous series of Lunar New Year stamps: Clarence Lee\u2019s intricate cut-paper design of a dog and the Chinese character for \u201cdog,\u201d drawn in grass-style calligraphy by Lau Bun.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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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":"

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