It’s a national day for licking
Yep, you can lick ’em both.
What do ice cream and postage stamps have in common?
Yep, you can lick ’em both.
And if you choose to do that Saturday, you’ll be participating in the recognition of two national days of observance — National Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day and National U.S. Postage Stamp Day.
If you’ve been among those who always seem to scream for ice cream, it’s your day to sample an exotic ice cream flavor or wonder about an odd combination of flavors you’ve been reluctant to try.
While traditional flavors like chocolate, vanilla and strawberry are just fine the other 364 days of the year, July 1 is the perfect day for exploring your wild side.
But if licking a frozen dairy dessert isn’t your thing, there’s always those little critters found in the upper right hand corner of envelopes — you know, those paper things that used to be all the rage before email took over.
On a day when you’d think ice cream was enough to celebrate, it’s also a day to honor the postage stamp.
Why? It was on this day 175 years ago that the U.S. issued its first postage stamp. Even though they were available in 1847, at the time post offices didn’t even require those mailing a letter to affix a stamp. That, of course, sounds too good to be true. The catch is that a letter could be mailed without a stamp, but when it was
