Staff Reports
INDIANA — The U.S. Postal Service celebrates the majesty and visual mystique of the winter season with new Winter Scenes stamps. The 20-stamp booklet captures snowy seasonal landscapes in 10 photographs. Photographs featured on the stamps show iconic scenes of winter in the Northern United States. Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamps with existing images taken by various photographers.
Five of the stamps feature images of winter wildlife against their snowy habitats: a bright red cardinal, a colorful blue jay, two foraging deer, a majestic owl and a portly brown bunny. Two stamps feature barns, both a brilliant red that contrasts elegantly with the surrounding snow and evergreen trees. The landscapes in two of the stamps focus on the beauty of freshly fallen snow: a long lane bounded by tall trees with snow-covered branches; and two towering evergreens covered in snow, highlighted against a cloudy sky and far-off hills. The final stamp depicts the romp of two large brown horses pulling a sleigh through the snow.
The Winter Scenes stamps are being issued as Forever stamps, which are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price. A pictorial postmark of the first-day-of-issue location, Winter Park, FL, is available at usps.com/stamps. The virtual ceremony introducing the stamps can be viewed on the Postal Service’s Facebook and Twitter pages. These Forever stamps are available at Post Office locations nationwide and at usps.com/winterscenesstamp. Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by calling 800-STAMP24 (800-782-6724), by mail through USA Philatelic, or at Post Office locations nationwide.
