{"id":28922,"date":"2020-07-07T10:05:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28922"},"modified":"2020-07-07T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:05:01","slug":"postal-service-reveals-addition-to-2020-stamp-program-new-stamps-celebrate-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/postal-service-reveals-addition-to-2020-stamp-program-new-stamps-celebrate-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Reveals Addition to 2020 Stamp Program &#8211; New Stamps Celebrate Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28923\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Innovation-Stamps-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Innovation-Stamps-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Innovation-Stamps.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 The U.S. Postal Service today announced the addition of the Innovation stamps to its 2020 stamp releases. Additional details, including the date these new Forever stamps will be available to purchase, will be announced soon. All images are preliminary and are subject to change prior to printing.<\/p>\n<p>This release celebrates the American spirit of innovation with a pane of 20 stamps featuring five different designs, each representing an area in which U.S. scientists and engineers have made significant contributions: computing, biomedicine, genome sequencing, robotics and solar technology. Art director Antonio Alcal\u00e1 designed the stamps, choosing a detail of an existing photograph for each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postal Products<\/strong><br \/>\nCustomers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through The Postal Store at\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.usps.com\/store\/results\/stamps\/_\/N-9y93lv?_requestid=424100\">usps.com\/shopstamps<\/a><\/em>, by calling 800-STAMP24 (800-782-6724), by mail through\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.usps.com\/store\/product\/stamp-collectors\/usa-philatelic-P_012007\">USA Philatelic<\/a><\/em>, or at Post Office locations nationwide. Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1?ounce price. A variety of stamps and collectibles also are available at\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/stamps\">ebay.com\/stamps<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Information on ordering first-day-of-issue postmarks and covers is at\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.usps.com\/store\/results\/stamps\/_\/N-9y93lv?_requestid=424100\">usps.com\/shopstamps<\/a><\/em>\u00a0under \u201cCollectors.\u201d<\/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, DC \u2014 The U.S. Postal Service today announced the addition of the Innovation stamps to its 2020 stamp releases. Additional details, including the date these new Forever stamps will be available to purchase, will be announced soon. All images are preliminary and are subject to change prior to printing. This release celebrates the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28922","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\/28922","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=28922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28924,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28922\/revisions\/28924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}