{"id":37779,"date":"2025-04-29T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=37779"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:36:31","slug":"u-s-postal-service-announces-stamps-celebrating-its-250th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/u-s-postal-service-announces-stamps-celebrating-its-250th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Postal Service Announces Stamps Celebrating Its 250th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 On July 26, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established a postal system for the United Colonies and appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general. The U.S. Postal Service today announced two stamp issues to celebrate its 250th anniversary \u2014 one of which is only available in an exclusive booklet.<\/p>\n

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The 32-page booklet \u2014 Putting a Stamp on the American Experience \u2014 celebrates the cultural importance of U.S. stamps.<\/p>\n

Highlighting the popular series and subjects that give the stamp program its range and depth, this booklet \u2014 only the fourth ever issued by the Postal Service \u2014 commemorates the 250th anniversary of our nation\u2019s postal system and celebrates the enduring influence of stamps on our shared heritage.<\/p>\n

Two self-adhesive sheets of a new intaglio printed stamp featuring Benjamin Franklin are available exclusively with the booklet. The stamp is based on an 1875 reproduction of an 1847 5-cent stamp, one of the first official U.S. postage stamps.<\/p>\n

The second release, 250 Years of Delivering, is a pane of 20 stamps by cartoonist Chris Ware that invites the public to spot a fun array of familiar postal items and icons while following a mail carrier on her rounds through four seasons of the year.<\/p>\n

Both the prestige booklet which includes the Ben Franklin Stamp and the 250 Years of Delivering pane are scheduled to be released in July. There will be additional stamps in the 2025 stamps program announced soon. These designs are preliminary and may change.<\/p>\n

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Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through\u00a0The Postal Store<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0usps.com\/shopstamps<\/em><\/a>, by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through\u00a0USA Philatelic<\/em><\/a>\u00a0or at select Post Office locations nationwide. For officially licensed stamp products, shop the\u00a0USPS Officially Licensed Collection on Amazon<\/em><\/a>. The stories behind the stamps and more are available at\u00a0stampsforever.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/td>\nThe United States Postal Service is an independent federal establishment, mandated to be self-financing and to serve every American community through the affordable, reliable and secure delivery of mail and packages to 169 million addresses six and often seven days a week. Overseen by a bipartisan Board of Governors, the Postal Service is implementing a 10-year transformation plan,\u00a0Delivering for America<\/em><\/a>, to modernize the postal network, restore long-term financial sustainability, dramatically improve service across all mail and shipping categories, and maintain the organization as one of America\u2019s most valued and trusted brands.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 On July 26, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established a postal system for the United Colonies and appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general. The U.S. Postal Service today announced two stamp issues to celebrate its 250th anniversary \u2014 one of which is only available in an exclusive booklet. The 32-page booklet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37779","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=37779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37782,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37779\/revisions\/37782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}