screenwhe.blogg.se

The Postal Store® cannot accept orders for shipment outside the United States, but we do ship to APO/FPO/DPO addresses and U.S. To view your order status and tracking information, sign in to your ® account, go to "Activity History", and select your Order#. If your order contains pre- or back-ordered items, those items will ship separately when all pre- or back-ordered items are available. Please allow 3-5 business days for in-stock items to be shipped with Default Shipping, or 1-2 business days for in-stock orders to be shipped with Priority Mail Express® service. The Postal Store® ships all in-stock orders with USPS Tracking™. Plate numbers every 32nd stamp below stamp image

Pantone 635 C Seafoam, Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Pantone 2234 C Aqua Like a Forever® stamp, these stamps will always be valid for the rate printed on them. The word "POSTCARD" on the stamps indicates their usage value. Suddenly an abundance of fish of all types and colors appear, along with a variety of other animals and plants, including sea urchins, seagrass, octopuses, and lobsters.Īrt director Ethel Kessler designed the stamps. Anyone who has snorkeled in tropical environments has witnessed the sea come alive when approaching a coral reef. As these limestone skeletons accumulate over time - with new colonies of polyps growing on top of the skeletons of older ones - they build up the base of coral reefs.Ĭoral reefs are one of the world's most marvelous ecosystems, sheltering and sustaining about a quarter of all ocean species. Polyps make stony corals, the foundation for most coral reefs, by secreting protective skeletons of calcium carbonate, or limestone. Postal Service®.įeaturing highly stylized digital portraits, the stamp art depicts four types of stony corals with associated reef fish: elkhorn coral, shown with two French angelfish brain coral, with a spotted moray eel staghorn coral, with bluestriped grunts pillar coral, with a coney grouper and neon gobies.Ĭoral reefs are formed over thousands of years mainly by colonies of animals called polyps. Celebrate the beauty and wonder of coral reefs with four new postcard stamps from the U.S.