The New Forever Stamp Series the USPS Hopes Will Get Hipsters Back to the Post Office

Posted on July 19, 2015July 19, 2015 by 21cpw

By Steven Heller – July 18, 2015 In 1967, the United States Postal Service issued a new five-cent postage stamp to celebrate Henry David Thoreau’s 150th birthday. The stamp proved exceedingly popular, but not for the reasons the USPS might have guessed: The scraggly-bearded portrait of Thoreau by Leonard Baskin became a generational emblem among…

Former PMG Bailar quits Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee

Posted on August 4, 2014August 4, 2014 by 21cpw

Former postmaster general Benjamin F. Bailar has resigned from the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, questioning the value of continuing a panel that has guided United States stamp policy since 1957. In a letter to Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe, Bailar suggested that the committee has become overly concerned about trying to raise money for the…