{"id":19456,"date":"2016-02-22T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/moon-stamps-make-a-full-moon-debut\/"},"modified":"2016-02-22T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T09:21:00","slug":"moon-stamps-make-a-full-moon-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/moon-stamps-make-a-full-moon-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon stamps make a full-moon debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_232000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232000\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-232000\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/0-0_USPS16STA032-630x334.jpg\" alt=\"Moon stamps\" width=\"630\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/0-0_USPS16STA032-630x334.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/0-0_USPS16STA032-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/0-0_USPS16STA032-1240x656.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-232000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can get 10 \u201cGlobal Forever\u201d moon stamps on a sheet that looks like the night sky looming above a row of trees. \u00a9 2016 USPS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now you can moon your mail carrier \u2026 not in the scatological sense, but in the philatelic sense.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate tonight\u2019s full moon, the U.S. Postal Service officially released its circular moon stamp today. One stamp sells for $1.20, and provides \u201cGlobal Forever\u201d postage for sending a 1-ounce letter to most countries around the world. (Technically, they can go to any country that\u2019s reachable by First Class Mail International service.)<\/p>\n<p>You can buy the stamps at post offices or online. And if you\u2019re a hard-core stamp collector, you can get a first-day-of-issue postmark or first-day cover by following the instructions in today\u2019s&nbsp;news release.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_232001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232001\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-232001\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-0_USPS16STA032a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Moon stamp\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-0_USPS16STA032a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-0_USPS16STA032a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-0_USPS16STA032a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-0_USPS16STA032a-630x630.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-0_USPS16STA032a.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-232001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The \u201cGlobal Forever\u201d moon stamp was issued to coincide with February\u2019s full moon, which is also known as the \u201cSnow Moon.\u201d \u00a9 2016 USPS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first round \u201cGlobal Forever\u201d stamp to be issued: That distinction belongs to the round Earth stamp&nbsp;that was rolled out three years ago. Other round stamps followed, including a false-color sea surface temperature stamp&nbsp;unveiled on Earth Day in 2014 and wreath&nbsp;stamps&nbsp;for the holidays. Those stamps are collector\u2019s items, and the moon stamp is likely to achieve similar status.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t spend all your money on the moon: Save some of your coins (preferably not the collectible ones) for the \u201cViews of Our Planets\u201d and the \u201cPluto \u2013 Explored!\u201d stamps that are due for release in late May or early June, plus the \u201cStar Trek\u201d set that will be issued sometime this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can get 10 \u201cGlobal Forever\u201d moon stamps on a sheet that looks like the night sky looming above a row of trees. \u00a9 2016 USPS Now you can moon your mail carrier \u2026 not in the scatological sense, but in the philatelic sense. To celebrate tonight\u2019s full moon, the U.S. Postal Service officially released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[625,5296,5297],"class_list":["post-19456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-moon","tag-stamps","tag-u-s-postal-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}