U.S. Postal Service releases "Made in America: Building a Nation" stamps.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: ABC News

The "Made in America: Building a Nation" U.S. Postal Service stamp issuance, launched Aug. 8, honors the workers who helped build our country. Eleven of the 12 stamp images were by photographer Lewis Hine, a chronicler of early 20th century industry, such as this man on a hoisting ball on the Empire State Building, courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film. (Courtesy US Postal Service)
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A railroad track walker is shown in this photo. "Since the middle of the 19th century, when the first transcontinental railroad was completed, railroads have carried countless tons of cargo across the nation," the postal service description states. (Courtesy US Postal Service)



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/slideshow/us-postal-service-launches-made-america-stamps-19885970

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Thanks to an email malfunction, I found out about this completely by accident. I went by the signing ceremony while on the way to something else entirely. Had the email gone out, I think a lot more people would have attended. I was there for the tail end of the ceremony.

I got one package containing a first day cover and then got the envelope signed by the Postmaster General and a Department of Labor official. Included with the package was a t-shirt made in the United States. The stamps are beautiful. All kinds of combinations of stamps were being sold, and people were snapping them up.

I'm always the last to know.

Bonus: I was informed that Bill Gross will probably show up for a ceremony at the National Postal Museum on September 22, 2013.

National Postal Museum
http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/

[Kingofalldems]

1. Great stuff

K and R

[tofuandbeer]

2. Great!

[think]

3. Very cool. Glad you got to be there.

[Crow73]

4. What Made in the USA means now?

US Territories sweatshops

Marianas’ Sweatshops


Saipan's Sweatshops


So much for that propaganda.

[DainBramaged]

6. So Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler are propaganda too? How about the tranplant auto makes and parts ?

Steel, plastics, asphalt, furniture, shall we go on?


Propaganda or squeezing the OP for your own agenda?

[Crow73]

10. :)

The Truth About American-Made Vehicles

[DainBramaged]

11. YEP

In addition, the Cars.com index seems to minimize the importance of domestic parts bought. GM doesn't have a single car in the top five of the index, yet consider that GM alone buys as many U.S. parts as Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Subaru, Mitsubishi, and all other Japanese automakers combined. Surprised? Wait -- it gets better.

Another thing the index fails to recognize is where the companies are headquartered. While the Japanese automakers do have plants and offices here, they aren't headquartered where the majority of their R&D money is spent. Detroit's Big Three are all headquartered here and have eight times the numbers of workers here that Toyota, Honda, and Nissan do. Detroit spends more on R&D here in the U.S. per year than juggernaut companies such as Boeing, Intel, Google, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and ExxonMobil -- again, combined

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Were the stamps made in the US too?

[Koios]

7. Yes ...

On German printing presses

Using inks produced in Asia

Paper likely from the US

Custom die-cutting plates likely also from the US

But it doesn't matter. Globalism has been good for America, creating more jobs than we've lost.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Erm...

Thirteen stamps and one black person.

I'm sure there is a historical reason to explain it.

[dbackjon]

13. I noticed that as well

[Igel]

14. Probably statistics.

1/13 = 7.6% of the "stamp" population.

2/13 = 15.3% of the stamp population.

The actual black population of the US for the period coverred was around 10%, maybe 9.8 or 9.9. 7.6 is closer to 10 than 15.3. The underrepresentation in the actual series is less than the overrepresentation would have been.

There may also be a question as to who the photographer(s) wanted to photograph, as well as geography.

Not that it'll probably matter.

[happyslug]

15. And only three women...

n/t

[DreamGypsy]

9. I find it just a bit ironic that the stamps bear the word...

...forever.

Beautiful photos.


Riveters on the Empire State Building are shown in this photograph. "It is for the sake of emphasis, not exaggeration, that I select the more pictorial personalities when I do the industrial portrait," photographer Lewis Hine wrote in 1933, "for it is the only way that I can illustrate my thesis that the human spirit is the big thing after all." (Courtesy US Postal Service)

Tom Russell, U.S. Steel (sound quality isn't great, performance is from a club in Pittsburgh. Evidently a lot of steelworkers in the audience who know the song and feel compelled to sing along. )

[GalaxyHunter]

12. Awesome!!

[tclambert]

16. Oh, well, now the Republicans HAVE to destroy the Postal Service.

The USPS is now obviously pro-worker. Hmm, sounds like communism to me.

[A Little Weird]

17. Hadn't heard about this - thanks!

I was needing some stamps and now I'll know to look for these.

[Kingofalldems]

18. Kick this good news to the top