Issues with the postal service New Love Forever Postage Stamps

 

14 January 2022, ROMEO, Michigan /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Postal Service has released two new "Love" stamps to commemorate the joy that flowers bring.

 

 

This year's Love stamps, which were released early in the year for usage on Valentine's Day, are also ideal for adding floral flare to letters, birthday or graduation cards, baby shower invites, or notes of gratitude. Any message will become more charming, whimsical, and romantic with their addition.

 

The hashtag #LoveStamps is being used on social media to spread information about the new Forever stamps.

 

In the famed Michigan town of Romeo, a stamp was dedicated. The entire month of February will feature romantic picture postmarks from Romeo.

 

Shavon Keys, vice president of sales for the Postal Service, who served as the ceremony's dedicating official, said, "The delight I receive from flowers is akin to the joy I feel when I receive mail from a loved one." Since the release of the first stamp in the Love series in 1973, "The Postal Service has brilliantly portrayed the thrill and exuberance of love."

 

The series' newest releases can now be purchased in Post Office locations around the country as well as online at The Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps.

 

Keys was joined at the ceremony by Alex Stubbs, who worked as Romeo's postmaster for 26 years, Christine Malzahn, president of the town of Romeo, and Kelley Stephens, executive director of the Greater Romeo-Washington Chamber of Commerce.

 

TheMittTV.com owner Ruth Heidebreicht served as the event's master of ceremonies.

 

According to Stubbs, who assisted in organizing the Romeo cancellation program, "for 28 years running, the village of Romeo's particular postmark has brought customers from all across the country and throughout the world a little closer."

 

Customers from more than 200 places across 36 states, as well as from France, Italy, and Japan, demanded cancellations, according to Stubbs.

 

The two stamp designs each have a backdrop field of powder blue or coral pink with graphic representations of flowers that are based on historic European folk art. Both have three symmetrically arranged spherical, stylised blooms along the top, smaller round blossoms in each of the bottom corners, and vines dotted throughout. In between the ornamental vines are the letters "LOVE." Each stamp has "Forever USA" written between the two little flowers down the bottom.

 

The stamps were created and illustrated by Bailey Sullivan. The art director was Greg Breeding.

 

Twenty-stamp panes of the Forever stamps will be available.