United States Postal Service Stamp News

Read the latest news from the United States Postal Service (USPS). Learn about the USPS new stamp releases, postage stamp rate updates and more! Date Title FileType 1/27/2022 Average delivery time across Postal Service network stable at 2.7 days PDF 1/26/2022 Board of Governors to meet Feb. 8 PDF 1/26/2022 USPS salutes legendary sculptor Edmonia Lewis PDF 1/20/2022 Postal Service issues new stamp celebrating Year of the Tiger PDF 1/20/2022 USPS maintains mailpiece time delivery average of 2.7 days across the network PDF 1/20/2022 新 郵票誌慶虎年蓄勢待發 PDF 1/14/2022 Postal Service issues new Love Forever stamps PDF 1/14/2022 Service performance holds...

(USPS)  What: The U.S. Postal Service will celebrate Message Monsters with the most playful, customizable Forever stamp design ever. The four monster illustrations on this pane of 20 stamps invite interactivity with dozens of self-adhesive accessories on the selvage. The monster-ific accoutrements include cartoony voice balloons and thought bubbles with exclamations and salutations, hats and crowns, hearts, stars, crazy daisies and other fun flair. Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the pane with original artwork by Elise Gravel, author and illustrator of popular children’s books. The first-day-of-issue event for the Message Monsters Forever stamp is free and open to the public....

(USPS) On Aug. 10, 1821, Missouri was admitted as the 24th state in the Union. The U.S. Postal Service celebrates the state’s bicentennial with a new stamp dedicated at the State Capitol in Jefferson City during a ceremony held today as a part of the Missouri 2021 Bicentennial celebration. “The Missouri Statehood stamp was designed from a photograph taken at Bollinger Mill State Historic Site. It features two treasured structures that date to the American Civil War era,” said dedicating official Peter Pastre, vice president, Government Relations and Public Policy, USPS. “Landscape photographer Charles Gurche, who took this picture, began...

(USPS) Stamps depicting the beauty, mystery and romance of lighthouses that have fascinated and enchanted people for centuries continue in 2021 with the issuance of Mid-Atlantic Lighthouses, the latest in the Postal Service’s continuing series of lighthouse stamps. The Mid-Atlantic Lighthouses stamps are now being sold at Post Office locations nationwide and online at usps.com/lighthousestamp. The stamp dedication took place at the Twin Lights State Historic Site in the Navesink Highlands of New Jersey — which is among the highest points along the Eastern Seaboard, guarding the entrance to New York Harbor. “Lighthouses are some of the most popular topics among...

(USPS) The U.S. Postal Service issued the Raven Story stamp today at the Sealaska Heritage Institute. The Forever stamps are now for sale at Post Offices nationwide. News of the stamp is being shared with the hashtags #RavenStoryStamp and #NativeAmericanRavenStory. Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp based on art created by Tlingit/Athabascan designer and artist Rico Worl. “The Raven Story represents a great meaning to the indigenous people of the Northwest Coast” said Jakki Krage Strako, the Postal Service’s chief commerce and business solutions officer and executive vice president, who served as the event’s dedicating official. “Today, the Postal Service is proud...