{"id":6901,"date":"2022-10-05T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2022-10-05T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:06:19","slug":"peanuts-in-letterbox-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/peanuts-in-letterbox-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanuts in letterbox format"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday, my postal carrier brought to me my big pile of the new Peanuts stamps, as well as the book that I’d ordered. Now, a Peanuts book being published by the United States Postal Service may sound like an inherently strange thing; other arms of the US government have issued Peanuts publications before. But the degree to which this is both fully a Peanuts thing and fully a Post Office thing is fun. The heart of this book is 38 pages of Peanuts strips all about postal themes — correspondence, mailboxes, and stamps. They’re run in order, with either 2 or 3 dailies or one Sunday on each page. All the strips are in black and white, although the book does use color printing for other purposes.<\/p>\n

But it’s not just the strips that are postal. The book’s brief biography of Schulz and its history of the strip are postal-focused… a technique that works better than you’d think. This was, after all, a man who learned drawing from a correspondence school, and a strip that became integrated because a former schoolteacher wrote a letter suggesting it. The material in the back is all about Peanuts stamps, not just this new centennial releases but the two earlier US Peanuts stamp releases.<\/p>\n

The package is kind of nice, with a well-designed embossed cover (with a flap to reveal an extra image). $23.95 is a bit stiff for a short paperback like this, but the price is more that of a collectible… and it does come with a “first day of issue” stamp. As of this writing, the book is still available to order<\/a> from the Postal service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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