New Guam Postage Stamp to be issued on Sept. 2

Stamp to be Unveiled by Lt. Gov. Cruz & Postal Officials

HONOLULU — Guam Lt. Governor Mike Cruz will join the U.S. Postal Service in ceremonies to officially dedicate the new Guam Flags of Our Nation stamp at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 2 in the Guam Governor’s Conference Room.

The dedication ceremonies will be emceed by the Postal Service’s Director of Asia-Pacific Relations Leo Tudela and will include remarks by Lt. Governor Cruz. The dedicating official will be the Postal Service’s Honolulu District Senior Plant Manager Glen Sakagawa. While the program is open to the public, seating will be extremely limited.

Flags of our Nation is a three-year, multi-stamp series, featuring the Stars and Stripes, the 50 state flags, five territorial flags, and the District of Columbia flag. The first set of ten stamps in the series was issued on June 14, Flag Day. The second set, to be issued nationwide on Sept. 2, features the flags of the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and, of course, Guam. In addition to the flag art, each stamp design includes artwork that provides a “snapshot view” of the state or other area represented by a particular flag.

These stamps are arranged alphabetically in strips of 10 and sold in coils of 50. Four more sets of flag stamps will be issued in 2009 and 2010. The flag of the Northern Mariana Islands will be part of a set issued in 2010.

Collectors will be able to purchase the Flags of Our Nation< stamps and have them hand cancelled for free with a special commemorative first day of sale postmark by postal personnel from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Governor’s Conference Room.

The second set of Flags of Our Nation stamps will be available for purchase in Post Offices throughout Guam and across the U.S. on Sept. 2.