{"id":34695,"date":"2020-03-03T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T21:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=34695"},"modified":"2020-03-08T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:34:19","slug":"buy-first-class-orchids-at-the-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/buy-first-class-orchids-at-the-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy First-Class Orchids at the Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/national-releases\/2020\/0121ma-usps-to-issue-wild-orchids-forever-stamp-feb-21.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can now buy first-class orchids at the post office.<\/a> The US Postal Service has just released 10 new stamps featuring wild orchids. All the species represented are native to the USA. My photos show both sides of a 20-stamp booklet and the cover image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_1_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34705 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_1_1000px-128x55.jpg\" alt=\"USPS wild orchid stamps, first-class forever stamps, native USA orchid species, 12 stamps of a 20-stamp booklet, Lady Slipper orchids\" width=\"128\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_1_1000px-128x55.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_1_1000px-300x129.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_1_1000px-768x329.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_1_1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_2_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34706 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_2_1000px-128x55.jpg\" alt=\"USPS wild orchid stamps, first-class forever stamps, native USA orchid species, 8 stamps of a 20-stamp booklet, Lady Slipper orchids\" width=\"128\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_2_1000px-128x55.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_2_1000px-300x129.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_2_1000px-768x329.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_2_1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34707 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_800px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Three Birds Orchid, Triphora trianthophoros, USPS wild orchid stamps, first-class forever stamps, native USA orchid species, stamp booklet cover image\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_800px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_800px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_800px-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USPS_wild_orchid_stamps_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are nine orchid species depicted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three Birds Orchid, <em>Triphora trianthophoros<\/em> (shown in two images)<\/li>\n<li>California Lady&#8217;s Slipper, <em>Cypripedium californicum<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Crested Coralroot Orchid, <em>Hexalectris spicata<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Showy Lady&#8217;s Slipper, <em>Cypripedium reginae<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Marsh Lady&#8217;s Tresses, <em>Spiranthes odorata<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid, <em>Platanthera leucophaea<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Greater Purple Fringed Orchid, <em>Platanthera grandiflora<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Yellow Cowhorn Orchid, <em>Cyrtopodium polyphyllum<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tuberous Grass Pink, <em>Calopogon tuberosus<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first day of issue ceremony was held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the American Orchid Society<\/a> Library at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairchildgarden.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden<\/a> in Coral Gables, Florida on February 21st. When I bought stamps a few days later, they were obviously very popular, because our local post office was running low on them. Buy your orchids at the post office while supplies last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can now buy first-class orchids at the post office. The US Postal Service has just released 10 new stamps featuring wild orchids. All the species represented are native to the USA. My photos show both sides of a 20-stamp booklet and the cover image. There are nine orchid species depicted. Three Birds Orchid, Triphora [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-in-the-news","category-misc","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34695"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34727,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34695\/revisions\/34727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}