2019-11-12 Tue

The Alzheimer’s disease Awareness semipostal stamp issued in the year 2017 is the nation’s 6th semi-postal issue. In the year 2017, the U.S. Postal Service discretionary authority acquired the right to design and sell semipostal stamps to advance such causes as it considers to be ‘‘in the national public interest and appropriate.’’

The first stamp issued will be an Alzheimer’s Semipostal Stamp. The Alzheimer’s Semipostal Stamp was issued during National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. President Ronald Reagan designated November as National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month in 1983. At the time, fewer than two million Americans were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s; today, that number has soared to nearly 5.4 million.

The stamp is First-Class Mail (FCM) postage stamps. The stamp was designed by multimedia artist Matt Mahurin and shows an Alzheimer’s patient with the comforting hand of a caregiver on the woman’s shoulder. The stamp was issued in a quantity of 500 million. However, s of September 2019, only 7.5 million had been sold.

Hence, The Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness semipostal stamp will be withdrawn from sale Nov. 30, 2019.

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