Updated April 22nd: Now confirmed by the USPS.
Career postal employee Mary-Anne Penner will be the next manager of the U.S. Postal Service’s Stamp Services department, which develops, designs and produces the agency’s postage stamps.
Penner’s Linked In profile picture is shown here.
The story was first reported by Bill McAllister in Linn’s stamp News, It was then confirmed from another source by The Virtual Stamp Club.
According to Penner’s Linked In profile, she has worked for the USPS her entire career, starting as a clerk and carrier in the Washington, DC, area in 1984. She moved into management in 1987, and has now been Manager, Strategic Account Analystics (National) for four years.
During that period, she says, she had three “detail” (temporary) assignments: Manager, Stamp Development; Chief of Staff (Stamp Services & Corporate Licensing); and Social Media Operations Team.
On Linked In, Penner says ” I am responsible for leading a team who can identify trends, and recommend changes to retain revenue and improve service, reduce operational costs, and grow products and services.”
Linn’s says members of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee were informed of Penner’s selection at the panel’s meetings earlier this month. There is no official confirmation yet from the USPS.
Penner succeeds Cindy Tackett, the interim manager of Stamp Services, who is retiring next month after 42 years with the USPS. There has been no official confirmation of that, either.
MARY ANNE…..
SELF ADHESIVE STAMPS RELEASE IMMEDIATELY
FROM PAPER BACKING BY DIPPIN THEM
IN ODORLESS MINERAL SPIRITS
THE PROCESS IS ACTUALLY LESS MESSY THAN THE OLD
WATER SOAKS FROM THE PAST.
AFTER THE STAMPS RELEASE FROM THE PAPER A GENTLE
WIPE WITH MINERAL SPIRIT DAMPENED KLEENEX FINISHES
THE JOB…..THE STAMPS THEN AIR DRY IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES
THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO IT
REGARDS
JIM MACKEY
Dear Mary-Ann Penner,
I have just received the latest issue of USA Philatelic. I am dismayed to see the paucity of stamps relating to our classical culture. I am speaking about the fine arts, classical music, literature, drama and ballet. In the past I have always bought a goodly qantity of stamps showing the works of American artists.
In this catalog, among the hundreds of stamps dealing with pop culture, the only two stamps dealing with non-pop culture are of Maya Angelou and Flannery O’Connor.
I urge you to create more stamps that deal with our country’s intellectual heritage. It is a rich one, and should be recognized at least as much as rock stars, comic book heroes, and athletes.
Yours truly,
James S. Rudolph
jsmithr@aol.com