{"id":22466,"date":"2018-02-04T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22466"},"modified":"2018-02-04T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T16:24:19","slug":"postal-service-to-dedicate-mister-rogers-forever-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/02\/04\/postal-service-to-dedicate-mister-rogers-forever-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service to Dedicate Mister Rogers Forever Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2018\/images\/pr18_010.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Postal Service to Dedicate Mister Rogers Forever Stamp\" width=\"127\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wide-table\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>WHAT:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>First-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Mister Rogers Forever stamp. The event is free and open to the public. Please share the news using the hashtag #MisterRogersStamp.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>WHO:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/who-we-are\/leadership\/officers\/pmg-ceo.htm\">Megan J. Brennan<\/a><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>WHEN:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Friday, March 23 at 11 a.m. ET<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>WHERE:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqed.org\/studio-on-fifth\">WQED\u2019s Fred Rogers Studio<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n4802 5th Avenue<br \/>\nPittsburgh, PA 15213<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>BACKGROUND:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Followers of the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s Facebook page can view the ceremony live at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USPS\"><em>facebook.com\/USPS<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fred Rogers (1928\u20132003) was known as a beloved television neighbor to generations of children. His groundbreaking public television series \u201cMister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood\u201dinspired and educated young viewers with warmth, sensitivity and honesty.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed in Pittsburgh and first distributed nationally in 1968 by a predecessor of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the program was innovative and unlike anything on television for children at that time. Each episode of \u201cMister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood\u201dbegan with its host welcoming the audience into his television house. While singing \u201cWon&#8217;t You Be My Neighbor?\u201d Rogers always put on his trademark cardigan, changed into sneakers and then introduced the day\u2019s topic. He discussed many of the experiences of growing up, delicately covering everything from sharing and friendship to difficult subjects like anger, fear and divorce.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\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<p><em><strong>Please Note:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Contact USPS with questions or concerns. 1-800-Ask-USPS or www.usps.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT: First-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Mister Rogers Forever stamp. The event is free and open to the public. Please share the news using the hashtag #MisterRogersStamp. WHO: Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer\u00a0Megan J. Brennan WHEN: Friday, March 23 at 11 a.m. ET WHERE: WQED\u2019s Fred Rogers Studio 4802 5th Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22466","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\/22466","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=22466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22469,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22466\/revisions\/22469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}