{"id":29913,"date":"2020-12-31T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29913"},"modified":"2020-12-31T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T15:20:17","slug":"usps-prepares-for-a-busy-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/12\/31\/usps-prepares-for-a-busy-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS prepares for a busy 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

USPS News Link<\/a> – 12\/31\/20 – The Postal Service will be busy all year long in 2021.<\/p>\n

The organization has\u00a0planned<\/em><\/a>\u00a0more than 15 stamp releases this year,\u00a0beginning<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with Love 2021 on Thursday, Jan. 14.<\/p>\n

Other early releases will include August Wilson (Thursday, Jan. 28), a Black Heritage stamp honoring the acclaimed playwright; Year of the Ox, the latest Lunar New Year stamp (Tuesday, Feb. 2); and Chien-Shiung Wu (Thursday, Feb. 11), a stamp honoring the influential nuclear physicist.<\/p>\n

The Combined Federal Campaign is slated to\u00a0conclude<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Friday, Jan. 15.<\/p>\n

Beginning Sunday, Jan. 24, USPS will\u00a0raise<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Shipping Services product prices approximately 3.5 percent for Priority Mail service and 1.2 percent for Priority Mail Express service, while Mailing Services product prices will rise approximately 1.7 percent.<\/p>\n

After being canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the National Postal Forum \u2014 the mailing industry\u2019s largest annual meeting \u2014 is slated to be held May 2-5 in Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the Stamp Out Hunger food drive, also canceled this year because of the pandemic, is expected to resume this year on Saturday, May 8.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service is tentatively slated to recognize National Dog Bite Awareness Week in June; National Slip, Trip and Fall Prevention Week in October; and USPS Motor Vehicle Safety Month in December.<\/p>\n

National Postal Customer Council Week, an annual event that brings together USPS and industry leaders at meetings across the nation, is scheduled to take place from Sept. 20-24.<\/p>\n

Independence Day\u00a0will fall on a Sunday<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in 2021 and Christmas Day will fall on a Saturday, as will New Year\u2019s Day 2022.<\/p>\n

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USPS News Link – 12\/31\/20 – The Postal Service will be busy all year long in 2021. The organization has\u00a0planned\u00a0more than 15 stamp releases this year,\u00a0beginning\u00a0with Love 2021 on Thursday, Jan. 14. Other early releases will include August Wilson (Thursday, Jan. 28), a Black Heritage stamp honoring the acclaimed playwright; Year of the Ox, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29913","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\/29913","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=29913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29914,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29913\/revisions\/29914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}