Friday, July 27, 2018

Frozen treats ! A deluge of frozen treats from USA




I received this postcard from Austin, Texas last week ! The USPS has issued a new set of forever stamps - Frozen Treats on June 20th 2018.  The U.S. Postal Service’s first scratch-and-sniff stamps will add the sweet scent of summer to letters of love, friendship, party invitations and other mailings. Thanks Trevor for the postcard - a self made one , and beautiful too ! 

And a couple of days ago, I received another envelope 


A deluge of frozen treats ! An FDC of the frozen treat stamp, with three stickers of the stamps . I feel the stamps smell something like strawberry ! And it’s a forever stamp - Forever Stamps  were created by the United States Postal Service (USPS) in 2007. They are non-denominational First Class postage, which means that they can be used to mail First Class letters no matter what the postal rate. Forever Stamps are ideal for mailing normal-sized, one-ounce letters within the United States. Art director Antonio Alcalá of Alexandria, VA, designed the stamps with Leslie Badani of Alexandria, VA.

The other cover shows a Tricentennial station postmark from San Antonio that was realeased on April 30, 2018 - but the sender had got it cancelled on May 29! 

The other FDC is that of Mr. Rogers stamp .Mr. Rogers ( 1928-2003) was a popular TV show hosting shows for children . He is seen with his puppet King Friday XIII. He died of cancer in 2003 and is immortalised with a USA forever stamp !  The cancellation looks neat and crisp . 

The total package came in an envelope with the Global : moon stamp and 
Global : The moon - is a Global Forever stamp - a forever stamp used for international mail within one ounce of weight . It was issued in 2016 and issued as a round stamp to differentiate from the domestic forever stamps.- international $1.15
The other stamp is a seashell stamp - showing zebra nerite seashell - one of four stamps from the seashell set. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamp and  Sergio Baradat created the stamp art. The word POSTCARD denotes the value of the stamp - to be used for postcards inside the US - postcard 35c 
Thanks Jessica - for this package ! 

I have received one more postcard from Cindy , Boston too with the scartch and sniff Frozen treats stamp ! 


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