The Postal Service has released a video preview of its upcoming booklet celebrating the cultural importance of U.S. stamps.
The 32-page booklet, “Putting a Stamp on the American Experience,” will come with two sheets of a new stamp featuring Benjamin Franklin, the nation’s first postmaster general. The stamp is based on a reproduction of a 5-cent stamp from 1847 — one of the first official U.S. postage stamps.
USPS will release the booklet in July, along with a pane of 20 stamps titled 250 Years of Delivering that is the subject of another video.
Both the booklet and stamps will help mark the Postal Service’s 250th anniversary on July 26.
