CROSS RIVER, NY – Postmaster Clarence Carson is inviting the community to a special dinosaur themed celebration from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 21 at the Cross River Post Office, 20 Cross River Shopping Center. A costumed Tyrannosaurus rex will join the Postmaster to meet and greet customers, distribute Postal Fun Books with crayons for the kids, handout special giveaways, and pose for T.rex selfies.

Postmaster Carson and the employees at the Cross River Post Office are joining a nationwide salute to the king of the dinosaurs and the recent issuance of new Forever commemorative stamps depicting the awe-inspiring Tyrannosaurus rex in growth stages from infancy to adulthood. Extinct for some 66 million years, the carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex dominated the Cretaceous period, which was the tail end of the dinosaur age.

The new Tyrannosaurus Rex Forever stamps are available in panes of 16 stamps with four designs. Featuring lenticular printing, two of the four designs show movement when rotated. See the skeletal remains with and without flesh and watch as an approaching T. rex suddenly lunges forward. This printing method was first used by the Postal Service to produce the Rabbit and Hat stamp on the Art of Magic souvenir pane in 2018.

Scientist and paleoartist Julius T. Csotonyi created photorealistic illustrations of T. rex with depictions based on the growing body of research on these dinosaurs. Csotonyi painted digitally using a stylus on a computer screen, an approach he likens to acrylic painting. Art director Greg Breeding designed the pane.

The “Nation’s T. rex,” the young adult featured on two of the new stamps, was discovered in 1988 on federal land in Montana. Painstaking excavation revealed what would become one of the most studied and important tyrannosaur specimens ever found, including the first T. rex arms ever recovered. The Nation’s T. rex is now exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.

Selfies taken at the event and news of the Tyrannosaurus Rex Forever stamps can be shared on social media using the hashtag #USPSTRexStamps.

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