Nation’s first PMG, Benjamin Franklin, was born 318 years ago on January 17

Posted on January 13, 2024January 13, 2024 by 21cpw

January 12, 2023 Perhaps it’s fitting that the Postal Service, an organization that has touched every corner of American life, can trace its roots to the most quintessential American. Benjamin Franklin, the nation’s first postmaster general, was born 318 years ago on Jan. 17, 1706. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and…

The New Forever Stamp Series the USPS Hopes Will Get Hipsters Back to the Post Office

Posted on July 19, 2015July 19, 2015 by 21cpw

By Steven Heller – July 18, 2015 In 1967, the United States Postal Service issued a new five-cent postage stamp to celebrate Henry David Thoreau’s 150th birthday. The stamp proved exceedingly popular, but not for the reasons the USPS might have guessed: The scraggly-bearded portrait of Thoreau by Leonard Baskin became a generational emblem among…