OLYMPIA — The U.S. Postal Service will hold a ceremony on Friday, Aug. 17 at 1 p.m. in the Capitol Rotunda in Olympia to unveil the new Washington State Flags of Our Nation stamp.
The First-Class Forever stamp features the official Washington State flag with a snapshot of the state’s renowned evergreen forest.
This will complete the Postal Service’s Stamps of Our Nation series. Ten stamps are being released as a set at this time. Besides Washington State, the set includes stamps for the following states – Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming, the U.S. Virgin Islands and one in honor of the Stars and Stripes.
The stamps will be sold only in 50-stamp coils which will include five of each stamp in the set. The coils will be available in post offices beginning Friday, Aug. 17.
Customers who wish to obtain a first-day-of-issue pictorial postmark have 30 days to submit their request. They need to purchase the stamps and affix them to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes to themselves (or others) and place them in a larger envelope addressed as follows:
FLAGS OF OUR NATION
FIRST-DAY-OF-SALE SPECIAL DEDICATION POSTMARK
WASHINGTON STATION
POSTMASTER
900 JEFFERSON ST. SE
OLYMPIA WA 98501-9998
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