Stamps Wiki:Stamp Issues Today/October 12


 * The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a new Forever&reg; Booklet of 20 stamps featuring four different scenes of the alert and playful North American River Otter revelling in Winter's white landscape.


 * With original illustrations rendered in pen and ink, the stamps are arranged in Blocks of four (pictured right).


 * NZ Post (New Zealand Post) issuing a set of four stamps plus a Miniature Sheet in celebration of Diwali.


 * Diwali is the most celebrated Hindu festival in New Zealand. It is known as the festival of lights, and symbolises the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and hope over despair. For some, it is the end of the harvest season and the start of a new year.


 * The stamps featured a Rangoli decoration, and each of the four stamps represents one of the ways in which Diwali is celebrated.