USPS announces new stamp series on Depression-era post office murals

Back in July 2016, “Save the Post Office” suggested that the Postal Service should put out a stamp series celebrating post office murals. As we noted then, “the Postal Service possesses over a thousand murals produced by FDR’s New Deal during the Great Depression. The paintings celebrate American workers, local histories, and significant national events. The murals themselves should be celebrated with a new USPS stamp series.”

This week the Postal Service announced several new stamp series that will come out in 2019, and among them is a series featuring five of these New Deal murals. As the USPS press release says, the murals were “designed to add a touch of beauty to Post Office walls and help boost the morale of Americans during the era of the Great Depression.”

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