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Mister Rogers Is Coming Back To Your Neighborhood, On A Stamp

The stamp will be dedicated in a first-day-of-issue ceremony held in WQED's Fred Rogers Studio in Pittsburgh where Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was filmed.

The U.S. Postal Service announced that it will release a Forever Stamp featuring America's favorite neighbor, television icon Mister Rogers.

The title character of the half-hour children's educational television series, Fred Rogers "was known as a beloved television neighbor to generations of children," a statement from USPS said. The stamp is scheduled to be unveiled March 23, 50 years after the original episode of the seriesaired in the U.S. in 1968.

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