October Breast Cancer Awareness month. The Jacksonville Post Offices are continuing their tradition to help fund the fight. Each station will participate in the Breast Cancer challenge.
All offices have decorated their lobbies to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness month and to encourage customers visiting the office.
Last year the Jacksonville Post Office, sold over 135,000 stamps. Last year's winner was the Pottsburg Station with the most stamp sales in the city and Lake Shore Station won the best decorated office. Who will be this year's winner?
The Breast Cancer Research semipostal was issued on July 29, 1998, at a first day ceremony held in the White House. It was the first semipostal stamp in U.S. history.
As of July 2012, the stamp has raised more than $75.5 million for breast cancer research. By law, 70 percent of the net amount raised is given to the National Institutes of Health and 30 percent is given to the Medical Research Program at the Department of Defense.
Designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, MD, the stamp features the phrases, "Fund the Fight" and "Find a Cure" and an illustration of a mythical "goddess of the hunt" by Whitney Sherman of Baltimore.
The price of a semipostal stamp pays for the First-Class single-piece postage rate in effect at the time of purchase plus an amount to fund causes that the Postal Service determines to be in the national public interest and appropriate. By law, revenue from sales (minus postage and the reasonable costs of the Postal Service) is to be transferred to a selected executive agency or agencies.
Other Post Offices doing their part for Breast Cancer Awareness month
Beaufort SC
Lenox GA
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