Asian American members of the US Congress on Thursday June 24 appealed for the Postal Service to issue more stamps depicting the community, which they said has been sorely underpresented.
The Postal Service has issued 43 stamps with Asian American themes since 1957, when a citizens' committee was set up to propose stamp subjects. Nearly half of the stamps have marked the Chinese New Year, the lawmakers said.
In a letter to the committee, Asian American members of Congress proposed a range of potential honorees for stamps such as Chinese who built the Transcontinental Railroad and Japanese Americans interned during World War II. (Source: AFP, Jun 24, 2010).