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NEW YORK — The United States Postal Service might have found a way to unite a nation bitterly divided after this month's election.
It's releasing a Betty White stamp.
The beloved actor known for roles in "The Golden Girls," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Boston Legal," and others will be on a 2025 Forever stamp, the Postal Service announced Friday, though they did not announce a specific release date for the stamp.
White combined a wholesome image with a flare for bawdy jokes as her television career began in the early 1950s, then exploded as she aged.
She died in late December 2021, less than three weeks before her 100th birthday, and was called "an icon of American television" by the Postal Service said in announcing the stamp.
It depicts a smiling White based on a 2010 photograph by celebrity photographer Kwaku Alston, with Boston-based artist Dale Stephanos creating the digital illustration from Alston's photo.
"I'd love to send a letter back to my 18-year-old self with this stamp on it and tell him that everything is going to be OK," Stephanos posted on Facebook.
Regardless of personal politics, self-proclaimed supporters of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris reacted with delight on social media.
"The only SNL host I ever saw get a standing ovation at the after party," Seth Meyers posted on Twitter after her death. "A party at which she ordered a vodka and a hotdog and stayed til the bitter end."
