{"id":23895,"date":"2018-07-26T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=23895"},"modified":"2018-07-26T07:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:59:15","slug":"dragons-descend-on-post-offices-aug-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/07\/26\/dragons-descend-on-post-offices-aug-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons descend on Post Offices Aug. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dragons<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
What:<\/strong><\/td>\nThe U.S. Postal Service will celebrate dragons: The high-flying, fire-breathing creatures that have roamed our imaginations for millennia will be featured on 16 new Forever stamps during a first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony at the American Philatelic Society Stamp (APS) Show co-hosted by the American Topical Association.<\/p>\n

Please share the news using the hashtag\u00a0#DragonStamps<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This ceremony is free and open to the public.\u00a0 RSVP at\u00a0usps.com\/dragons<\/em><\/a>. (Note<\/strong>: Attendees must register onsite at the APS registration booth to receive a pass for access to the exhibit floor where the ceremony will be held.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Who:<\/strong><\/td>\nMary-Anne Penner, director, Stamp Services, U.S. Postal Service
\nJoshua Colin, vice president, Area Operations, Eastern Area,
\nU.S. Postal Service
\nScott D. English, executive director, American Philatelic Society
\nJanet Klug, chair, Citizens\u2019 Stamp Advisory Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When:<\/strong><\/td>\nNoon EDT, Thursday, Aug. 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Where:<\/strong><\/td>\nAmerican Philatelic Society National Summer Convention Stamp Show<\/em><\/a>
\nGreater Columbus Convention Center
\nExhibit Hall B
\n400 N. High St.
\nColumbus, OH 43215<\/p>\n

Followers of the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s Facebook page can view the ceremony live at\u00a0facebook.com\/USPS<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Background:<\/strong><\/td>\nThroughout history and across the globe \u2014 from Europe to the Middle East to Asia to the Americas \u2014 people have enjoyed tales of the mythological creatures. Though these legendary animals vary in shape, size and color, they\u2019re most often described as lizard-like with four legs, sharp claws, scales, wings, and spiky tails. The stamps feature four colorful dragons set against four unique backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Each of the 16 stamps showcases one of four dragons: a green fire-breathing dragon towering over a medieval-inspired castle; a purple dragon with orange wings and sharp black armor on its back snaking around a white castle; a black dragon with green wings and green armor on its back swooping past a ship on the sea; and a wingless orange dragon weaving its way around a pagoda.<\/p>\n

The stamps feature digital illustrations created by artist Don Clark of Invisible Creature studio. Art director Greg Breeding designed the issuance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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":"

What: The U.S. Postal Service will celebrate dragons: The high-flying, fire-breathing creatures that have roamed our imaginations for millennia will be featured on 16 new Forever stamps during a first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony at the American Philatelic Society Stamp (APS) Show co-hosted by the American Topical Association. Please share the news using the hashtag\u00a0#DragonStamps.\u00a0 This ceremony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23895","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\/23895","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=23895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23896,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions\/23896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}