Since 1986, the films of Pixar Animation Studios have stretched the boundaries of our imagination with stories about unlikely heroes who explore the bonds of friendship and family. Now some of those heroes are the subjects of colorful new Send a Hello (Forever®) stamps that encourage people to connect with loved ones through the mail. [...]
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Indianapolis 500
May 25th, 2011 
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729 viewsOn May 30, 1911, Ray Harroun blazed across the finish line at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, winning the first Indianapolis 500 Mile Race in #32, the black-and-yellow Marmon “Wasp” he designed himself. This Indianapolis 500 stamp celebrates the centennial of that race, an American tradition now billed as “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” and hailed [...]
Mercury Project and MESSENGER Mission
May 23rd, 2011 srmodh 1,340 viewsThe Postal Service, in Kennedy Space Center, Florida, issued a Mercury Project/MESSENGER Mission se-tenant pair commemorative stamp. One stamp commemorates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Project Mercury, America’s first manned spaceflight program, and NASA astronaut Alan Shepard’s historic flight on May 5, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Freedom 7. The other stamp draws attention [...]
Jazz Appreciation
March 29th, 2011 srmodh 1,059 viewsTo celebrate America’s musical gift to the world, the U.S. Postal Service issued the Jazz Appreciation Forever Stamp. Inspired by vintage jazz record-album covers, Pasadena, Calif., artist Paul Rogers captured the eclectic nature of jazz music and the spontaneity and improvisation of jazz artists in creating art for the Jazz Appreciation Forever Stamp. “With this [...]
Latin Music Legends
March 27th, 2011 srmodh 2,238 viewsFive legendary musicians and performers of the Latin sound whose contributions have had a lasting impact on American music — Selena, Carlos Gardel, Carmen Miranda, Tito Puente, and Celia Cruz — are honored on U.S. commemorative Forever stamps. Among the distinctive musical genres and styles represented by the music legends featured on the Forever stamps [...]
Year of the Rabbit – USA
January 20th, 2011 srmodh 1,451 viewsThe U.S. Postal Service will issue the fourth of twelve stamps in its Celebrating Lunar New Year series, which began in 2008 with the Year of the Rat.
