United States Postal Service Stamp News

Gregory Oliver Hines, American actor, choreographer, dancer and singer became the 42nd honoree in the Black Heritage Stamp series issued by the US Postal Service on 1/28/2019. In this photo taken by Jack Mitchell in 1988, Gregor Hines is shown smiling on one knee in a red blazer and gray pants. A tried and true advocate for tap dancing, he petitioned for the creation of the National Tap Dance Day. The stamp photo of Gregory Hines raising his left foot to show the taps on the bottom of his shoe is testament of his true devotion to tap dancing. He...

The US Postal Service has chosen bright pink peach blossoms as the main feature for the Chinese Lunar New Year theme stamp celebrating the year of the boar. In China, the peach tree fills the landscape with blooms of bright pink flowers in early February. The flowers define feminine beauty, dominance, and sexuality as important traits of power and strength.   The stamp's design comes from the original artwork by Kam Mark combined with features taken from previous Lunar New Year stamp series by Clarence Lee and Lau Bun. The art director for this stamp was Ethel Kessler. 

Celebrate the month of February with Love! The Hearts Blossom US Forever stamp is one of the latest Love series stamps issued by the US Postal Service featuring the word "love" in cursive script below 12 beautifully arranged colorful hearts of red, purple, orange and pink. The stamp was issued on January 10, 2019 and is available now in time for Valentine's Day. 

Celebrate the joyous Jewish holiday of Hanukkah with a new stamp from the U.S. Postal Service and Israel Post. Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C. after it had been re-conquered from armies that desecrated the sanctuary.

This Christmas stamp features a detail of Bachiacca's oil-and-gold-on-panel painting Madonna and Child, which dates from the early 1520's, showing the Christ child clutching a bouquet of jasmine, a symbol of divine love, alongside the Virgin Mary's profile, left shoulder, and right hand.