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Baseball All-Stars Stamps Debut on National Broadcast
What First Day of Issue ceremony for release of the Major League Baseball All-Stars Forever stamps honoring Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Stargell, and Larry Doby will be broadcast live via satellite (info below) for viewing or editing and re-broadcasting on large screens at stadiums across the country.
Who Hall of Famers Tony Gwynn
Joe DiMaggio's granddaughter Kathie Stein
Willie Stargell's wife Margaret Weller-Stargell
Larry Doby, Jr.
Hall of Fame Board Chairman Jane Forbes Clark
USPS Board of Governors member Louis Giuliano
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe
When Friday, July 20, 2012
10 a.m. EDT (7 a.m. PDT)
Where National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Background Dedication ceremony for Baseball All-Stars stamps is part of opening day festivities for the four-day Hall of Fame Weekend. The stamps go on sale at Post Offices nationwide that day and online at http://www.usps.com/play-ball.
Satellite Info Satellite feed is direct access to ceremony starting at 10 a.m. EDT. Satellite window opens at 9 a.m. EDT. Trouble line at ENCOMPASS DIGITAL MEDIA (1-678-421-6604). All calls related to feed should go to this number for assistance.
Questions related to content go to USPS at 202-268-2236.
-- Satellite Coordinates (Digital Only) for Television Network, Network
Affiliates and Cable News Operations
-- D/L G3C-K13 A (9MHz)
-- D/L 11951 H
-- FEC: 3/4
-- SR: 6.1113
Sound bites, b-roll and photos of the event will be available beginning at 3 p.m. EDT on this USPS Broadcast Media Center website: USPS Newsroom
It also will be webcast live on USPS.com at 10 a.m. EDT on Friday, July 20. USPS Major League Baseball All-Stars First-Day-of-Issue Ceremony
A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation -- 151 million residences, businesses and Post Office(TM) Boxes. The Postal Service(TM) receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com®, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world's mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, Oxford Strategic Consulting ranked the U.S. Postal Service number one in overall service performance of the posts in the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
Follow the Postal Service onwww.twitter.com/USPSand at http://www.facebook.com/USPS
CONTACT:
Mark Saunders
1-202-268-6524
mark.r.saunders@usps.gov
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- July 19, 2012/
SOURCE U.S. Postal Service
U.S. Postal Service
Web Site: http://www.usps.com
Baseball All-Stars Stamps Debut on National Broadcast
What First Day of Issue ceremony for release of the Major League Baseball All-Stars Forever stamps honoring Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Stargell, and Larry Doby will be broadcast live via satellite (info below) for viewing or editing and re-broadcasting on large screens at stadiums across the country.
Who Hall of Famers Tony Gwynn
Joe DiMaggio's granddaughter Kathie Stein
Willie Stargell's wife Margaret Weller-Stargell
Larry Doby, Jr.
Hall of Fame Board Chairman Jane Forbes Clark
USPS Board of Governors member Louis Giuliano
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe
When Friday, July 20, 2012
10 a.m. EDT (7 a.m. PDT)
Where National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Background Dedication ceremony for Baseball All-Stars stamps is part of opening day festivities for the four-day Hall of Fame Weekend. The stamps go on sale at Post Offices nationwide that day and online at http://www.usps.com/play-ball.
Satellite Info Satellite feed is direct access to ceremony starting at 10 a.m. EDT. Satellite window opens at 9 a.m. EDT. Trouble line at ENCOMPASS DIGITAL MEDIA (1-678-421-6604). All calls related to feed should go to this number for assistance.
Questions related to content go to USPS at 202-268-2236.
-- Satellite Coordinates (Digital Only) for Television Network, Network
Affiliates and Cable News Operations
-- D/L G3C-K13 A (9MHz)
-- D/L 11951 H
-- FEC: 3/4
-- SR: 6.1113
Sound bites, b-roll and photos of the event will be available beginning at 3 p.m. EDT on this USPS Broadcast Media Center website: USPS Newsroom
It also will be webcast live on USPS.com at 10 a.m. EDT on Friday, July 20. USPS Major League Baseball All-Stars First-Day-of-Issue Ceremony
A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation -- 151 million residences, businesses and Post Office(TM) Boxes. The Postal Service(TM) receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com®, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world's mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, Oxford Strategic Consulting ranked the U.S. Postal Service number one in overall service performance of the posts in the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
Follow the Postal Service onwww.twitter.com/USPSand at http://www.facebook.com/USPS
CONTACT:
Mark Saunders
1-202-268-6524
mark.r.saunders@usps.gov
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- July 19, 2012/
SOURCE U.S. Postal Service
U.S. Postal Service
Web Site: http://www.usps.com