El Paso chosen to unveil U.S. Postal Service Dia de los Muertos stamps

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The US Postal Service launched its first-ever Dia de los Muertos stamp and chose El Paso to unveil them.

The four colorful new stamps were shown at the El Paso Museum of Art on Thursday.

The first-day-of-issue event for the Day of the Dead stamps was free and open to the public.

A pane of 20 Forever stamps contains five identical rows of four colorful stamps featuring several iconic elements of a traditional Day of the Dead offering.

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The stamps are stylized, decorated “sugar skulls” and are personalized as family members — a child with a hair bow, a father sporting a hat and mustache, a mother with curled hair, and another child.

Luis Fitch designed and illustrated the stamps.

Antonio Alcalá was the art director.

Michael J. Elston, secretary of the USPS Board of Governors, will serve as dedicating official at the event.

Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic, or at Post Office locations nationwide.

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