United States Postal Service Stamp News

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.

The U.S. Postal Service celebrates Christmas with four stamps featuring classic images of Santa Claus painted by famed commercial artist Haddon Sundblom. Each stamp portrays a close-up of Santa's face; the four images are details from larger paintings created by Sundblom and originally published in ads for the Coca-Cola Company from the 1940's through the early 1960's.