Michigan's Grand Island Ice Caves get their own U.S. Postal Service stamp
Bisma ParvezThe U.S. Postal Service announced Thursdaythere will be two new additions to the 2020 Stamp Program: Big Bend and Grand Island Ice Caves.
Both stamps will be released Jan. 18, 2020, but there will be no national first-day-of-issue ceremony for the stamps.
Customers can use a single stamp to pay for Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express Flat Rate shipping.
The stunning Grand Island Ice Caves will be featured on the new Priority Mail Express stamp.
Located in Lake Superior half a mile from Munising in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the sandstone bluffs "are especially dramatic in winter when lake water seeps into the crevices and caverns, forming magnificent ice curtains and icicles that hang like stalactites from ceilings," the press release says.
Big Bend, on the Priority Mail stamp, "celebrates the beauty of the region in West Texas, where river, mountain and desert ecosystems coexist in its vast expanses," the release says.
Big Bend National Park borders Boquillas, Mexico. The stamp art features the Rio Grande flowing between the limestone cliffs of Santa Elena Canyon.
Both stamps are designed by art director Greg Breeding using original art by Dan Cosgrove.
Information on ordering first-day-of-issue postmarks and covers is available at usps.com/shop.
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