Sunday Stamps: The Letter B

 Good day, and welcome to a nice day in the American Midwest.  It's time for Sunday Stamps.

In our tour of the alphabet, we are up to the letter B.

A stamp of Blueberries from the US Postal Service (and this image is from their website), used to make up postage.  It is normally used for slightly overweight letters or oversized letters.

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Sunday Stamps: the letter A

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cool sunny morning in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.

SeeitonaPostcard is starting a series where we work our way through the Alphabet.  I hope the USPS has a variety of stamps.  And that I have a variety of stamps that I have shared before.

In any case, for the Letter A, the Appalachian Trail:

This is one of a set of 15 stamps, showing the natural beauty along the trail.  These are Forever stamps, always good for US first class postage (which is now 78 cents!).

The Appalachian Trail extends from northern Georgia to Maine, and is approximately 2200 miles or 3540 kilometers long, according to the Wikipedia entry.  I grew up in Massachusetts not far from a section of this trail.

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Sunday Stamps: Christmas in July

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a warm muggy morning in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday stamps.

Each year, the US Postal Service issues a religious Christmas stamp, usually an image of the Madonna and Child.  They also issue a secular stamp or set of stamps.  The Christmas stamps for 2025 have not been issued yet, nor have they shown up on the USPS website.  So I am sharing a stamp issued last year in the fall of 2024:

This image is from the USPS website.

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Sunday Stamps: Blue

 Good Day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a warm cloudy morning in the American Midwest.  

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme is blue.

Here is a new stamp, to be issued by the US Postal Service on Aug. 14 of this year:

It will be issued then for the 2026 World Stamp Show in Boston.  I believe that is Paul Revere, riding along.  Note the older style of this stamp.

These two scans are from the USPS website.

Very pretty I think and it fits the theme for today.

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