Bat’s Private Post celebrates WLPD 2023 with four animal stamps

Beverly Hills-based Bat’s Private Post is one of several private local posts celebrating World Local Post Day by issuing a stamp or stamps picturing local flora and fauna.

On February 5, Bat’s released four stamps. Two of the stamps have face values of 68¢ each: one features a blurry image of Bigfoot from film recorded at Six Rivers National Forest in California, and the other shows a Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus). Each stamp covers Bat’s Private Post’s combined charge for local postage and first-class domestic postage.

The other two stamps are denominated $1.50 and cover Bat’s Private Post’s combined charge for local postage and first-class international postage. Those stamps depict a Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) and Mearns’ coyote (Canis latrans mearnsi), the latter of which is native to southern California.

World Local Post Day 2023 was officially scheduled for January 30, the final Monday in January, but local post operators have the freedom to celebrate the event on any alternate dates of their choosing.

Published 2023-02-20