Lansing MI — October is ‘Breast Cancer Awareness’ month and on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 through Thursday, October 31, 2013 the  Lansing Post Offices™ will be getting their pink on for a “Pink at the Post Office” event to promote the sale of the Breast Cancer semipostal stamp.  The Local Lansing Post Offices™ are one of several hundred post offices in the Greater Michigan District (which covers post offices with zip code areas beginning with prefixes 486–491 and 493-499) participating in this event.

Acting Postmaster Peter Conigliaro says “Our Retail Associates will wear pink in support of this important subject”.  “Few things reach as many Americans each day as the U.S. Mail, so the Breast Cancer semipostal postage stamp provides an opportunity to raise money and awareness in support of important social issues << Conigliaro further states”.

The Breast Cancer Research stamp was the first semipostal stamp in U.S. history, when it was issued on July 29, 1998 at the White House.  By law, 70 percent of the net amount raised from the sale of the stamp goes to the National Institutes of Health and 30 percent goes to the Medical Research Program at the Department of Defense. Over 1 billion Breast Cancer semi-postal stamps have been sold to date since its issuance, with $77.8 million dollars raised for research. It will remain on sale until December 2015.

So visit anyone of the following Lansing Post Offices and purchase pink (the Breast Cancer semipostal stamps that is) and you will be a part of the continued fight for a worthy cause.

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