Twentieth-Century Bards Help Send Beautiful Notes

If you’re looking for a new spin on your stationery, the Twentieth-Century Poets notecards are a perfect way to add a bit of art and literature to your notes.

Featuring evocative illustrations by artist Vivienne Flesher, each of the 10 notecards also includes several lines of poetry from one of the great poets honored on the Twentieth-Century Poets pane (as well as postage!). Let the literary masters help you say it with these truly one-of-a-kind notecards. Your friends and family will love them!

This beautiful set of 10 cards makes a great gift, too, for the lovers of literature and art in your life. Quantities are limited, so make sure you get yours before they’re gone!

Mail Picturesque Scenes of America’s Natural World

On June 23, the Postal Service will release a second set of Scenic American Landscapes stamped cards at the National Topical Stamp Show (June 22–24), hosted by the American Topical Association, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Like the first set (pictured above), these cards will be released in a booklet of 20 with 10 designs featuring stamp images from the Scenic American Landscapes series.

The new set of stamped postal cards will include images of 13 Mile Woods, New Hampshire; Glacier National Park, Montana; Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming; Hagatna Bay, Guam; Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Niagara Falls, New York; Nine-Mile Prairie, Nebraska; Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia/Florida; Rio Grande, Texas; and Voyageur National Park, Minnesota.

Mail, share, or collect these beautiful cards and spread the joy of some of our country’s most picturesque places.

2012 Stamps Issued in New Formats This Summer

We have some exciting, breaking stamp news for all of you!

At the National Philatelic Exhibitions (NAPEX) this summer in McLean, Virginia, two previously issued 2012 stamps will be released in new formats. On June 1, Four Flags (Forever®) will be issued as a booklet of 10, and on June 2, 32-cent Aloha Shirts will be issued as a booklet of 10. The NAPEX stamp show will run from June 1–3 and admission is free!

On June 22, the Sailboat (Forever®) stamped cards will be available in packs of 40 for $14.10. They will go on sale at the National Topical Stamp Show (June 22–24), hosted by the American Topical Association, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

These stamps were so much fun to celebrate the first time around, we can’t wait to celebrate them again!

You’re Invited to a #Handwriting Twitter Party!

That’s right! USPS Stamps is delighted to be one of the panelists at the #handwriting chat to be held on Twitter this Wednesday night (Hey, that’s tomorrow!) at 8 p.m. EST, and you are invited to come along! The party is being hosted by The Gracious Girl, and the other panelists are Crane & Co., Sheaffer Pen, and Stationery Trends magazine. Wow!

We’ll be talking about letters and mail and stamps and stationery and pens and handwriting and whatever else comes to mind. Won’t you stop by and share your thoughts? You can even enter to win some prizes!

Want to participate but don’t know much about Twitter chats? Not to worry. The Gracious Girl has, well, graciously, created a simple tutorial that will get you going in no time.

See you tomorrow night!
Mary