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™. These Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce rate.Ĭyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Pantone 4261 The Otters in Snow stamps are being issued as Forever® stamps. We may shiver at the thought, but their dense double-layered coats insulate them against the winter cold and keep them from freezing.Īrt director Derry Noyes designed the stamps with artwork from illustrator John Burgoyne. When they glide across ice to get to an opening and dive into the water below, it is because they depend on river creatures for their winter diet. Otters may look a bit awkward when walking, but they are nothing but graceful as they twist and loop through the water, slide down snowbanks, or frolic in the fluffy white stuff. Besides webbed feet, it has a muscular tail, about 40 percent of its entire body length, that powers it in swimming and diving. In the views showing motion, small snowballs race the otters downhill.Ī denizen of riparian areas throughout most of the United States and Canada, this elegantly long and sleek mammal (Lontra canadensis) is designed for life in and around the water. In the stationary poses, snow clings to the otters’ fur. From upper left and moving clockwise, they depict an otter poking its head-seen in three-quarters profile-from the surface of an icy body of water an otter sliding on its back, tail first, down a snowbank an otter chest-deep in a snow drift, facing the viewer and another otter sliding down a snowbank. With original illustrations rendered in pen and ink with watercolor, the stamps are arranged in blocks of four. Postal Service, features four different scenes of the alert and playful North American river otter reveling in winter's white landscape.
Otters in Snow, a new booklet of 20 stamps from the U.S.