Updated March 24th: First day ceremony April 1 at 1 p.m.
Friendship Public Charter Schools-Woodbridge Campus (Gymnasium)
2959 Carlton Ave., N.E.
Washington, DC 20018
Updated March 6th: Here is the Digital Color Postmark for FDCs: 
Updated March 4th: From the Postal Bulletin:
On April 1, 2015, in Washington, DC, the U.S. Postal Service® will issue the From Me to You First-Class Mail® stamp (Forever® priced at 49 cents), in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 473000).
The stamp will go on sale nationwide April 1, 2015.
Celebrate keeping in touch with the new From Me To You stamp from the U.S. Postal Service. Twenty stamps in the center of the stamp pane are surrounded by self-adhesive labels and decals in bright jewel tones and primary colors to be used to embellish envelopes, letters, and greeting cards with a personal touch. Labels include such messages as “Happy Birthday,” “Miss You,” “Thank You,” and “Get Well Soon.” Decorative decals include hearts, envelopes, flowers, mailboxes, and a kiss (red lips). Michael Osborne designed the stamp pane and the typography. Ethel Kessler was the art director.
How to Order the First-Day-of-Issue Postmark:
Customers have 60 days to obtain the first-day-of-issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office, at The Postal Store® website at www.usps.com/shop, or by calling 800-STAMP-24. They should affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes (to themselves or others), and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:
From Me to You Stamp
Special Events
PO Box 92282
Washington, DC 20090-2282
After applying the first-day-of-issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark up to a quantity of 50. For more than 50, customers have to pay five cents each. All orders must be postmarked by June 1, 2015.
There are eight philatelic products for this stamp issue:
- 473006, Press Sheet with Die cut, $58.80, (print quantity 500).
- 473008, Press Sheet without Die cut, $58.80, (print quantity 1,500)
- 473010 Digital Color Postmark Keepsake, $11.95
- 473016 First-Day Cover, $0.93
- 473021 Digital Color Postmark, $1.64
- 473030 Ceremony Program, $6.95
- 473031 Stamp Deck Card, $0.95
- 473032 Stamp Deck Card with Digital Color Postmark, $1.99
Technical Specifications:
Issue: From Me to You Stamp
Item Number: 473000
Denomination & Type of Issue: First-Class Mail Forever
Format: Pane of 20 (1 design)
Series: N/A
Issue Date & City: April 1, 2015, Washington, DC 20066
Designer: Michael Osborne, Palo Alto, CA
Art Director: Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD
Typographer: Michael Osborne, Palo Alto, CA
Modeler: Joseph Sheeran
Manufacturing Process: Offset
Printer: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU)
Printed at: Williamsville, NY
Press Type: Muller A76
Stamps per Pane: 20
Print Quantity: 45 million stamps
Paper Type: Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tag applied
Adhesive Type: Pressure-sensitive adhesive
Processed at: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU)
Colors: PMS 638 C Blue, PMS 7440 C Purple, PMS 368 C Green,
PMS 3258 C Turquoise, PMS 1795 C Red, PMS 702 C Pink,
PMS 144 C Orange
Stamp Orientation: Vertical
Image Area (w x h): 0.77 x 1.05 in./19.56 x 26.67 mm
Overall Size (w x h): 0.91 x 1.19 in./23.11 x 30.23 mm
Full Pane Size (w x h): 5.55 x 6.91 in./140.97 x 175.51 mm
Press Sheet Size (w x h): 11.10 x 20.98 in./281.94 x 532.89 mm
Plate Size: 240 stamps per revolution
Plate Numbers: “P” followed by five (5) single digits
Marginal Markings: Front: Plate numbers in one corner of pane, 2015, Decorative Decals with
Friendly expressions
Back: © 2014 USPS • USPS logo • Plate position diagram • Barcode (473000) in upper right and lower left corners of pane • Promotional text • Vector artwork • Verso Text
Updated March 3rd: The USPS Postal Store shows the first-day as April 1st. The illustrations of FDCs conform to that date.
Updated February 20th: The USPS is still trying to lock down the event in Washington. Can’t confirm Greeting Card Association winter meeting (my question).
From Me To You (1 design + stickers)
April is National Card & Letter Writing Month. The panes of 20 stamps includes 12 stickers, and the USPS information also refers to “decals.” The artist is Michael Osborne of San Francisco, who also did Love: Candy Hearts, Chacón “Madonna and Child, Our Wedding, Patriotic Banner (Presorted Standard), Presorted First-Class Spectrum Eagle, Yes, I Do, and Where Dream Blossom.
[December 23rd] These stamps will probably be issued in late March, but the exact date and city are not yet known. The Greeting Card Association, which pushed for the butterfly greeting card stamps, holds its Winter Meeting March 18-19 at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C. “Join fellow GCA members and leaders in the postal community for the first business meeting of the year. This year’s meeting will provide strong programming, addressing high-level postal and legislative issues.” Nothing on the agenda yet about stamps, but there is a “reception for the postal community” Wednesday evening, March 18th.
The Postal People seemed especially eager to know our opinions of this design, and, of those expressing opinions, none really liked it.
Below is the design of the complete pane of stamps: 
Are you kidding me? This is nonsense – We don’t need this. Don’t we have enough redundant issues without including silliness?
How about an annual Thanksgiving stamp or Memorial Day or Veterans Day?
And that’s from me to you.
First, don’t shoot me, I’m only the messenger! I didn’t like it either. The USPS has a good relationship with the greeting card industry (which makes sense) and this is for them.
Second, the USPS tried a Thanksgiving stamp, Sc. 3546, in 2001. It did not sell well. Maybe it was the design, maybe it was because it’s not a greeting-card holiday. We have been getting veterans stamps lately (Medal of Honor), and often issued on either Memorial Day or Veterans Day, or close to ’em (since both are postal holidays).
Is this the April Fools Day stamp? What does it commemorate? (hippies in the Haight-Ashberry) I thought FOREVER stamps were supposed to Reduce the number of issues each year…
The “From Me To You” stamps, Press Sheets and FDCs and Ceremony Program are now posted for pre-sale on the USPS Store’s website. FDOI is apparently Wednesday, April, 1, 2015 in Washington, DC.
I like this stamp just fine. I wondered at first if it might be a Love stamp. Then, when I saw the selvage, I was sure of it. I included it in my Love stamp collection, anyway. The press release says the April 1st issue date is for National Card and Letter Writing month. Go ACE! The design might be considered unispired by some, but I be kids will have fun with the stickers sending letters to their Gramma, and I bet Grandparents everywhere will keep those letters forever!
PS: in regards to an earlier posting, I loved those Thanksgiving stamps too!
This silly stamp doesn’t impress me at all. What I was hoping to see some day again are the “Special Occasion” stamps issued at least twice in years past. They came in a booklet. The thoughts expressed on the stamps were, “Congratulations,” “Get Well,” “Thank You,” “Love You, Mother,” “Love You, Dad,” “Best Wishes,” “Happy Birthday,” and “Keep in Touch.” It would be nice to have them as a FOREVER stamp, so they’ll always be good. They were much more artful than the current stamp.
Where in the world did all these bah humbug folks come from for goodness sake!!! The stamp is great, some of us like a little levity and silliness in our lives. only problem the post office never has them an I don’t put my cc online
This ended up being my favorite stamp and the messages included are great!!!!
I want more:)
I hope this stamp will come back out. I am using it when I sent gifts for people gave a referral who then bought from me. So you see it is my way of saying thank you along with the gift being sent. All inclusive. Love these stamps and that is from me to you, lol.
Love the me to you stamps, use them on special occasions for family and special friends . They loved receiving them. Please bring them back
Love this stamp too. Love putting it on birthday cards and any notes just sent just to say hello. Wish the post office still had it, or I could find this stamp at a reasonable price somewhere else. Prices on the secondary market are crazy for this stamp!
My college-aged daughter LOVES these stamps… her friends enjoy them as well. Hoping they come back!
greath content!