Sacramento USPS supervisor supports cat rescue at work and at home

"Peaches" stamp;  USPS

The United States Postal Service will soon be selling stamps that will help make adoptions and food donations possible for needy animal shelters. Cindy Weight is pleased about that for a couple of reasons.

Weight, a customer service supervisor at the Sacramento post office on Royal Oaks Drive, is proud that the USPS is dedicated to promoting  animal adoptions.  Supporting animals is not new to the USPS; in 2002 the postal service released commemorative stamps promoting the spaying and neutering of pets.

"Buddy" stamp; photo by USPS

Animal rescue is a topic that is near and dear to Weight's heart. She and her husband rescued three very young abandoned kittens and and bottle-fed them around the clock.

The Weights intended to find homes for the kittens once they were weaned, but found it impossible to give them up. Now adults, Rocky Raccoon, Bobby and Ginger live safely indoors and keep the family on their toes. Pinkie, a calico, has the reputation of being something of a thief. 

I have a lot of things I can’t find”, Weight laughs.
 

"Frankie" stamp mug; USPS 

 In addition to encouraging people to adopt rescue animals, the new stamp program will directly increase food supplies to US shelters. The USPS has partnered with Halo: Purely for Pets, which will be donating one million meals to shelter pets during the launch of the “Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet” stamps.

The 44-cent first-class stamps feature Sally Anderson-Bruce’s photographs of ten animals that found homes through shelters in New Milford, Connecticut. There are five stamps with dogs and five more starring adopted cats.  Some of these sweet creatures had pretty rough lives, so finding their forever homes is all the sweeter.

Stamps can be preordered on-line; Weight says the USPS is encouraging consumers to do that, as post offices may sell out of the initial shipments of the stamps quickly. Other products featuring the stamps are available as well, including mugs, note cards and framed artwork.

 The stamps will be issued beginning on April 30 in North Hollywood, California.