An MA USPS retail associate offers peace

Monna Bari, a retail associate in Cataumet, MA, learned origami — the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes — as a child from her mother.

Bari’s been busy making origami cranes to promote the new International Peace stamp, which features an image of the white bird made from folded paper.

She displays them around the Post Office for customers to take as a keepsake, if they wish.

Baris said she decided to do this because she believes in worldwide peace and because her mother is from Japan, where the story of the paper crane as a symbol of peace began.

“I take pride in my heritage, so making these cranes for community gives me inner peace,” she said.

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