WEST NYACK, NY— On Monday, January 20, the USPS Palisades Center Store at the mall in West Nyack will be the only Post Office open in the area on the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. Only Priority Mail Express will be delivered on Monday. Normal mail delivery, postal retail operations, and mail collections will resume on Tuesday, January 21.

The Postal Service will follow-up the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday observance with the issuance of the 43rd stamp in its popular Black Heritage series on January 30 to honor Gwen Ifill, one of the nation’s most esteemed journalists. The stamp art features a photo of Ifill taken in 2008 by photographer Robert Severi.

After graduating from college in 1977, Ifill worked at The Boston Herald American, The Baltimore Evening Sun, The Washington Post and The New York Times. In 1994, she took a broadcast job at NBC, where she covered politics in the DC bureau. Five years later, she joined PBS; she became the senior political correspondent for “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” and moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week” — the first woman and first African American to moderate a major television news-analysis show.

In 2013, she became co-anchor of the “PBS NewsHour,”part of the first all-female team to anchor a national nightly news program. Ifill died in 2016.

For more information and to view an image of the new Gwen Ifill Forever stamp log onto USPS.com. News of the Gwen Ifill stamp is being shared with the hashtags #GwenIfillForever and #BlackHeritageStamps.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

###