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- Issue date March 5, 2018.FDCs to:FDOI — Illinois Statehood StampUSPS Stamp Fulfillment Services8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300Kansas City, MO 64144-9900FDC deadline July 5, 2018

- Issue date March 5, 2018.FDCs to:FDOI — Illinois Statehood StampUSPS Stamp Fulfillment Services8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300Kansas City, MO 64144-9900FDC deadline July 5, 2018

— February 22 | Fort Pierce, FL | PSA pane of 20The Bioluminescent Life stamps were issued in Fort Pierce, Fla., home to ORCA, the Ocean Research & Conservation Association. ORCA’s CEO and Senior Scientist is Dr. Edith Widder, who took the photographs that appear on seven of the stamp images.Bioluminescence is the ability of some species to glow, the one with which we are most familiar being the firefly. A thttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescencewe learn that, in lay terms, the princip …

- Issue date February 22, 2018.FDCs to:FDOI — Bioluminescent Life StampUSPS Stamp Fulfillment Services8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300Kansas City, MO 64144-9900FDC deadline June 22, 2018

- Issue date February 22, 2018.FDCs to:FDOI — Bioluminescent Life StampUSPS Stamp Fulfillment Services8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300Kansas City, MO 64144-9900FDC deadline June 22, 2018

— February 9 | Fort Lauderdale, FL | PSA booklet of 20 and PSA coil of 100 stampsU.S. stamps picturing the American flag in full color have been available to the public almost continuously since 1957. The first U.S. Flag stamp of 2018 is this new definitive. It is one of two Flag stamps scheduled for 2018—the other being a commemorative stamp celebrating the bicentennial of the Flag Act of 1818.Mailers like to use Flag stamps on their mail, as it is thought they have a better chance of being ope …

- Issue date February 9, 2018.FDCs to:FDOI — US Flag StampUSPS Stamp Fulfillment Services8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300Kansas City, MO 64144-9900FDC deadline April 9, 2018

— January 30 | New York, NY | PSA pane of 20Lena Horne is included in the USPS Black Heritage series as a trailblazer in Hollywood for women of color when in fact, her fame and her contributions were much broader. As a performer her 70-year career was capped by a one-woman show, “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music,” which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and then on tour across the United States. And as an activist, her defense of the civil rights of all Americans led to …

- Issue date January 30, 2018.FDCs to:FDOI — Lena Horne StampUSPS Stamp Fulfillment Services8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300Kansas City, MO 64144-9900FDC deadline March 30, 2018

- Issue date January 30, 2018.FDCs to:FDOI — Lena Horne StampUSPS Stamp Fulfillment Services8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300Kansas City, MO 64144-9900FDC deadline March 30, 2018