Looney Toons, Among Others, to be Immortalized on Stamps

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Dec 11, 2000 | by John Elvin

Postal rates are going up another penny, but there's good news, too. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will be issuing some new stamps, and quite a few of them even may be similar to those issued years ago, when you could tell which way was up when you pasted them down. Portrait stamps to be issued include famed American illustrators and a black-heritage series. Lucille Ball and Leonard Bernstein also will be featured.

For those who like to keep smiling, the USPS will salute the Looney Tunes animations from Warner Brothers and the Peanuts cartoon strip. And to ease the rather mild pain of another penny in price, there'll be another "love" stamp. The Nobel prizes will be saluted during the 100th anniversary of the awards for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, economic sciences and peace.

And for those who like to dress up their envelopes with something a bit different (and they seem to have been rather influential in recent years), a series on the Oriental calendar will conclude with a stamp celebrating the Year of the Snake.