{"id":9783,"date":"2015-01-20T18:37:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T23:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9783"},"modified":"2015-01-20T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T23:37:06","slug":"pmg-donahue-featured-in-cbs-sunday-morning-stamp-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/01\/20\/pmg-donahue-featured-in-cbs-sunday-morning-stamp-story\/","title":{"rendered":"PMG Donahue featured in \u2018CBS Sunday Morning\u2019 stamp story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Cool and collected<\/h1>\n<h2>PMG Donahue featured in \u2018CBS Sunday Morning\u2019 stamp story<\/h2>\n<div class=\"lightbox\"><a title=\"Reporter Rita Braver interviews PMG Pat Donahoe at the National Postal Museum. Photo: CBS News\" href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/01jan\/images\/news21s3-large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Reporter Rita Braver interviews PMG Pat Donahoe at the National Postal Museum. Photo: CBS News\n\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/01jan\/images\/news21s3.jpg\" alt=\"CBS stamps story\" width=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h6>Reporter Rita Braver interviews PMG Pat Donahoe<br \/>\nat the National Postal Museum. Photo: CBS News<\/h6>\n<p>The \u201cageless allure of stamp collecting\u201d was the subject of a Jan. 18 CBS News<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-ageless-allure-of-stamp-collecting\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican stamps tell the story of the American experience,\u201d PMG Pat Donahoe said during the segment, which aired on \u201cCBS Sunday Morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PMG discussed philatelic history, including the most collected stamp of all time, the 1993 Elvis Presley stamp.<\/p>\n<p>Also discussed: the role of the Citizens\u2019 Stamp Advisory Committee, which helps the PMG choose about 35 stamps for production each year after reviewing between 20,000 and 35,000 suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>The report also featured collectors David Robinson, who found one of the 100<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2013\/09sep\/news20s5.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Inverted $2 Jenny Stamps<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>sheets issued in 2013, and billionaire Bill Gross, who funded the stamps gallery at the National Postal Museum in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>Gross, a renowned investor, estimates he has spent $100 million on his hobby. He said he likes to relax by sitting with his collection while watching TV sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd hopefully not get too excited and rip up some of the stamps!\u201d Gross said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool and collected PMG Donahue featured in \u2018CBS Sunday Morning\u2019 stamp story Reporter Rita Braver interviews PMG Pat Donahoe at the National Postal Museum. Photo: CBS News The \u201cageless allure of stamp collecting\u201d was the subject of a Jan. 18 CBS News\u00a0report. \u201cAmerican stamps tell the story of the American experience,\u201d PMG Pat Donahoe said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9783","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\/9783","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=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9785,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions\/9785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}