Postal Service Provides ‘Sneak Peek’ at Car Stamps

What:	Preview of “America on the Move: ‘50s Fins and Chrome” commemorative stamps
Who:	U.S. Postal Service Deputy Postmaster General and Chief Operating Officer Patrick Donahoe Carlisle Events Co-Founder Bill Miller
When:	10 a.m. ET Fri., April 25, 2008
Where:	Center Stage adjacent to Grandstand http://www.carlisleevents.com/ce/pdf/Carlisle_Map_SF.pdf Spring Carlisle Collector Car Swap Meet & Corral Carlisle Fairgrounds 1000 Bryn Mawr Road Carlisle, PA 17013 (Media must pick up credentials at Vendor Services located outside Gate 3. Media set-up begins at 8am. Parking will be provided.)
Background:	The U.S. Postal Service pays tribute to America’s love affair with the automobile by issuing the “America on the Move: ‘50s Fins and Chrome” stamps this fall. A 10 ft. image of the stamps—a 1957 Chrysler 300C, 1957 Lincoln Premiere, 1957 Pontiac Safari, 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk and a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado—will be previewed to the nation for the first time during a special ceremony. The first-day-of-issue stamp dedication ceremony will take place Oct. 3 during the Fall Carlisle Collector Car Swap Meet & Corral. The Postal Service inaugurated the series in 2005 by issuing the “America on the Move: Sporty Cars of the ‘50s” stamps. The stamp pane depicted a 1952 Nash Healey, 1953 Chevrolet Corvette, 1953 Studebaker Starliner, 1954 Kaiser Darrin and a 1955 Ford Thunderbird.

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An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation — 146 million homes and businesses. It has 37,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses, not tax dollars. The Postal Service has annual revenues of $75 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail.