PLAINS, GA. (KFOR) - The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced this month it will release a stamp in honor of former President Jimmy Carter.

According to USPS, the stamp will be available beginning October 1, the 101st anniversary of Carter’s birth.

“The stamp program celebrates the best in American culture, places and people, and it is difficult to consider a more fitting honoree than former President Jimmy Carter,” said Peter Pastre, the Postal Service’s government relations and public policy vice president, who announced the stamp and revealed its artwork Aug. 16 at an event in Carter’s hometown of Plains, GA.

“In his support and leadership of his beloved community, state and nation, he lent his quiet, thoughtful and deliberate energy around causes he believed in, and most ce

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