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Collect All 10 Character-Inspired Stamps Featuring Beloved Droids<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 1\/26\/21 – The first characters fans meet in the first \u201cStar Wars\u201d film, \u201cStar Wars: A New Hope,\u201d are droids \u2014 namely C-3PO and R2-D2 \u2014 and droids have continued to play pivotal roles throughout the \u201cStar Wars\u201d galaxy.<\/p>\n With 10 dazzling new character-inspired stamps, the Postal Service salutes beloved droids from the \u201cStar Wars\u201d galaxy and the imagination that brings these technological marvels to the screen.<\/p>\n Representing more than four decades of innovation and storytelling, the droids featured in this pane of 20 stamps are IG-11, R2-D2, K-2SO, D-O, L3-37, BB-8, C-3PO, a GNK (or Gonk) power droid, 2-1B surgical droid and C1-10P, commonly known as \u201cChopper.\u201d<\/p>\n The characters are shown against backgrounds representing settings of memorable adventures. The selvage features a passageway from the floating Cloud City above the planet Bespin, introduced in \u201cStar Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n These set of droids are a nod to Lucasfilm\u2019s, as well as its parent company, Disney\u2019s, commitment to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning and the continued collaboration between \u201cStar Wars: Force for Change\u201d and global pre-K-12 nonprofit organization \u201cFIRST\u201d (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).<\/p>\n \u201cStar Wars: Force for Change\u201d and \u201cFIRST\u201d have joined forces to expand access to STEM learning to more young people around the world, and to help them envision a brighter, more inclusive future.<\/p>\n Lucasfilm, the studio that created the \u201cStar Wars\u201d franchise, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2021.<\/p>\n Greg Breeding was the designer of the stamps and pane. William Gicker was the art director.<\/p>\n Additional details about the new \u201cStar Wars\u201d droids-inspired stamp collection, including the issue date, will be announced later this year.<\/p>\n Postal Products<\/strong> 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":" Collect All 10 Character-Inspired Stamps Featuring Beloved Droids WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 1\/26\/21 – The first characters fans meet in the first \u201cStar Wars\u201d film, \u201cStar Wars: A New Hope,\u201d are droids \u2014 namely C-3PO and R2-D2 \u2014 and droids have continued to play pivotal roles throughout the \u201cStar Wars\u201d galaxy. With 10 dazzling new character-inspired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30044","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\/30044","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=30044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30047,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30044\/revisions\/30047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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