Are you looking for new ways to dress up your mailings? If you want to attract end-users to your mailer, this month's mystery product offers the perfect solution.
Check out the following clues to guess this item:
• It displays American pride.
• It costs 44 cents a piece.
• It is made for nine different states.
• It includes an added bonus version.
mystery product revealed
The United States Postal Service (USPS) recently unveiled the fourth set of stamps in its five-year Flags of Our Nation stamp series. Stow, Ohio-based MACtac supplied the pressure-sensitive adhesive label materials for the 500 million stamps printed for this fourth set.
The 44-cent first-class stamp set features the state flags of Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and North Dakota. Also featured in this series, as an added bonus, is the Stars and Stripes stamp illustrating the "purple mountain majesties" from the opening lines of "America the Beautiful" by Katherine Lee Bates.
Working under the direction of stamp designer Howard E. Paine of Delaplane, Va., artist Tom Engeman of Bethany Beach, Del. created the highly detailed flag portraits on the stamps. Engeman previously designed the National World War II Memorial stamp (2004) and the nation's first Forever stamp (2007), featuring the Liberty Bell.
The Flags of Our Nation stamp series will include 60 stamps featuring the nation's flag as well as flags representing the 50 states, five territories and the District of Columbia. So far, issued stamps have included the Stars and Stripes series, as well as Alabama through Missouri, alphabetically. Stamps will continue with the Northern Marianas through Tennessee being issued in 2011. The series concludes in 2012 depicting Texas through Wyoming and the U.S.A. Fruited Plain Flag stamp.
The stamps are printed in coils of 50 and can be purchased online at www.usps.com/shop.
For more information about MACtac Printing Products, please call (800) 255-9733 or visit www.MACtac.com/RollLabel. For more information, visit www.MACtac.com.