04/14/2011 Addition To US Stamp Program "Go Green"

Came across this on the internet. Anyone know about this apparent upcoming issue that apparently has yet to receive a USPS official announcement?

This is only a draft mock-up of the design (I think). I can't imagine that the dark green "forever" stamp could be issued without a country name on it ... even though it has been done a few times before.

Yep, guilty of most of the above,
"share a ride" not so, as I am in the country.
Tyre pressures is a goodie.
I gotta tell you though, when I go to
our local tip, it doesn't look good,
lots of plastic being buried, and glass, and......

Maybe the dark green 'stamp' is a label ?
If this is going to be something like the end product [if indeed there is one] then it is fabulous.

We have been 'going green' here in our village these last weeks and I have been playing my part.

Full story on the non-philatelic threads [with pics] later this week.

Although there will be a Philatelic connection.....Mmmmmmmm!

Londonbus1

Maybe, they are cinderella's or poster stamps. Are they made from recycled material? Could they be for use on Email only, that would be very green?

According to the list on the Virtual Stamp Club site, these stamps are due for release in April 2011.

http://www.virtualstampclub.com/2011usnew.html

According to that page, the dark green 'label' is indeed a stamp.
I am sure USA will be inscribed.

This will fit in perfectly with a small 'Green' display I will be doing at around that time.
So I will probably be bothering someone to get one for me...all fees paid of course.

Nice sheet.

Londonbus1

Wow! According to VSC, there will be no less than THIRTEEN (13) different stamps and postal stationery items issued in the month of April 2011...with five (5) to be issued on April 11th alone! That must be some sort of record.

(So much for going "green"!)

They look like advertising or public service announcements from the 1970's or even the School House Rock cartoons. I keep expecting to see Smokey the bear, Hootie the owl, or Louie the lightning bug appear.

I do like them though, especially the meaning behind the stamps. I think they are being released on Earth Day, April 22.

Earth Day makes sense as a date of issue, but it seems odd that in perusing the latest issue of the USPS Postal Bulletin (02/10/2011) that the USPS still has the issue date and first day city listed as "to be announced". Seems a bit late not to have firmed that up yet, doesn't it?

What is above the first "G" on the Go Green label/stamp? Might that be the "USA"?

The microtext above the first "G" is the date (2011) as is indicated on all of the stamps.

Today's issue (03/24/2011) of The Postal Bulletin shows new artwork for that questionable "green" stamp #6 for this upcoming sheet, now confirmed to be issued on April 14, 2011. (At least they added "usa" to the stamp, even if it's only in lower case letters.)

I wonder if they are printed on recycled stamps that the USPS had to recall for destruction. Maybe the printer used recycled materials to make the ink.

Check out this issue of the Postal Bulletin (where I got the above revised image). They have included an entire "media kit" on the issue, including printed materials that will be available at every post office on the subject of "Going Green". It seems to me that all of that extra paper isn't "Going Green" ... or am I missing something?

http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/bullet.../pb22307.pdf

I do find it interesting that their media kit also includes proposed wording for e-mails on the subject which surprised me, because I thought the USPS was against that form of communication because it directly impacts their bottom line. Of course, it is the "Go Green" alternative.

I still think they are hideous stamps. I thought that style of graphic design went out with the 1970's.