{"id":6436,"date":"2013-08-08T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2013-08-08T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:47:12","slug":"made-in-america-forever-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/08\/08\/made-in-america-forever-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in America Forever Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The contributions of America\u2019s industrial-era workers are memorialized on a new sheet of Forever stamps titled Made in America: Building a Nation. The stamps, which feature black-and-white photographs of early 20th-century industrial workers, were dedicated at the Department of Labor today by Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stamp-made-in-america.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6438\" alt=\"stamp-made-in-america\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stamp-made-in-america.gif\" width=\"281\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Labor Day around the corner, the Postal Service is proud to honor the men and women who helped build this country with their own hands,\u201d Donahoe said. \u201cThey mined the coal that warmed our homes. They made the clothes we wore on our backs. Let each stamp serve as a small reminder of the dedication, work ethic, and sacrifices that make America great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joining Donahoe at the ceremony was recently-appointed Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor Tom Perez, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Elizabeth Shuler, and other union leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStamps are like a miniature American portrait gallery,\u201d said Labor Secretary Perez. \u201cThey are an expression of our values and a connection to our past. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so fitting that that this series depicts Americans at work. These iconic images tell a powerful story about American economic strength and prosperity. These men and women and millions like them really did build a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2013\/pr13_062.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contributions of America\u2019s industrial-era workers are memorialized on a new sheet of Forever stamps titled Made in America: Building a Nation. The stamps, which feature black-and-white photographs of early 20th-century industrial workers, were dedicated at the Department of Labor today by Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe. \u201cWith Labor Day around the corner, the Postal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436","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=6436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6439,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions\/6439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}