The Arkansas District and all Post Offices and stations will be supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month in October through the sales of its Breast Cancer Awareness semipostal stamp.
As part of their support, postal clerks will be selling the Breast Cancer Awareness 55-cent stamp of which each booklet contributes $2.20 to help find the cure for breast cancer.
“We hope our customers will join us in helping find the cure for breast cancer through the sale of these special stamps,” said Arkansas District Manager David Camp. “Cancer touches everyone’s life in some way; I have friends that are battling cancer today. The Postal Service is proud to support this research to find a cure.”
The Breast Cancer Research semipostal was issued on July 29, 1998, at a first day ceremony held in the White House. It was the first semipostal stamp in U.S. history.
To date, the stamp has raised more than $73.5 million for breast cancer research. By law,
70 percent of the net amount raised is given to the National Institutes of Health and 30 percent is given to the Medical Research Program at the Department of Defense.
Designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, MD, the stamp features the phrases, "Fund the Fight" and "Find a Cure" and an illustration of a mythical "goddess of the hunt" by Whitney Sherman of Baltimore.
The price of a semipostal stamp pays for the First-Class single-piece postage rate in effect at the time of purchase plus an amount to fund causes that the Postal Service determines to be in the national public interest and appropriate. By law, revenue from sales (minus postage and the reasonable costs of the Postal Service) is to be transferred to a selected executive agency or agencies.
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