USPS: New Members Appointed to Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee

1/22/2021 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service announced the appointment of three members to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC). Created in 1957, the CSAC selects subjects for recommendation as future stamp issues, made with all postal customers in mind, including stamp collectors. Committee members, appointed by the Postmaster General, provide expertise on history, science […]

Postmaster General Announces New Chairman of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee

October 24, 2019 WASHINGTON — Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan today named Bolivar J. Bueno as chairman of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC), effective immediately. Bueno succeeds Janet Klug, who is retiring. A member of CSAC since 2012, Bueno is a lecturer, creative strategist and expert in building brands. A resident of Kissimmee, FL, […]

USPS appoints new Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee members

10/9/18 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today announced the appointment of three members to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC). Created in 1957, the CSAC evaluates all stamp proposals received by the Postal Service. Committee members, appointed by the Postmaster General, provide expertise on history, science and technology, art, education, sports and other subjects […]

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II calling for creation of World War I stamps

Jun 17, 2015 Press Release Today, Congressman Cleaver sent a letter to the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee calling for the creation of a series of commemorative stamps to be issued in 2017, 2018, and 2019 in memory of World War I. “These stamps will allow us to pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of […]

An Open Letter to Postmaster General Megan Brennan

Former members of the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee’s open letter to Postmaster General Megan Brennan No reasonable economist can make a convincing argument that the out-of-sight financial crises of the Postal Service can be fixed with 49 cent stamps. Postal Service marketers who believe that are dead wrong. Yet some do. In our combined three-plus […]

Jack Daniel Distillery petitions USPS for commemorative stamp to honor founder

Included with its petition is a letter signed by every member of Tennessee’s congressional delegation supporting the request. October 3, 2014- In its letter of request to Postal Service’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, the distillery said that the request for a Jack Daniel stamp met the subject selection criteria, including being an American, honoring those […]

PMG appoints 2 former USPS Board members and 2 others to stamp advisory committee

PMG Pat Donahoe has appointed four new members to the committee that helps him choose stamp subjects. The four new members of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC) are:

Former CSAC member endorses Former PMG’s criticism of stamp program

A former member of the United States Postal Service’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee has endorsed former postmaster general Benjamin Bailar’s criticism of the current stamp program. Cary Brick, a former congressional staffer who left the committee last year, said in an Aug. 7 statement that he also fears marketing officials are having too much influence […]

Former PMG quits Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee

Former postmaster general Benjamin F. Bailar has resigned from the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, questioning the value of continuing a panel that has guided United States stamp policy since 1957. In a letter to Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe, Bailar suggested that the committee has become overly concerned about trying to raise money for the […]

List of who or what image will be featured on postage stamps for 2014 and beyond

Steve Jobs, Michael Jackson, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Sam Cooke, Hip Hop, Johnny Carson Dora the Explorer, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, actor and five-term NRA president Charlton Heston, Peanuts and Beatle John Lennon –these are among a pop-culture-heavy lineup of commemorative stamp subjects the U.S. Postal Service is planning for […]