On March 17, 2014, in Liberty, Missouri, the U.S. Postal Service will issue A Flag for All Seasons First-Class Mail stamps (Forever priced at 49 cents), in four designs, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) booklet of 20 stamps (Item 688400).
A Flag for All Seasons, first introduced in 2013, features four different stamp designs. Each stamp shows an American flag, viewed from below, flying from a pole at full staff against a background of trees that evoke one of the four seasons of the year. Artist Laura Stutzman worked with art director and stamp designer Phil Jordan on this stamp art.
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 pu rchase 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:
A Flag for All Seasons Stamp
Cancellations Unit
PO Box 449992
Kansas City, MO 64144-9992
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 post marked by May 16, 2014.
There is one philatelic product for this stamp issue: 688418, First-Day Cover set of 4, $3.72
Technical Specifications:
Issue: A Flag for All Seasons Stamp
Item Number: 688400
Denomination & Type of Issue: First-Class Mail Forever
Format: Double-sided Booklet of 20 (4 designs)
Series: N/A
Issue Date & City: March 17, 2014, Liberty, MO 64068
Art Director: Phil Jordan
Designer: Phil Jordan
Typographer: Phil Jordan
Artist: Laura Stutzman
Modeler: Donald Woo
Manufacturing Process: Offset/Microprint “USPS”
Engraver: N/A
Printer: Banknote Corporation of America
Printed at: Browns Summit, NC
Press Type: Alprinta, 74
Stamps per Booklet: 20
Print Quantity: 2.2 billion stamps
Paper Type: Phosphor Type II
Adhesive Type: Pressure-sensitive
Processed at: Banknote Corporation of America, Browns Summit, NC
Stamp Orientation: Vertical
Image Area (w x h): 0.71 x 0.82 in./18.03 x 20.82 mm
Stamp Size (w x h): 0.87 x 0.98 in./22.10 x 24.89 mm
Full Booklet Size (w x h): 5.52 x 1.96 in./140.21 x 49.78 mm
Colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Plate Size: 576 stamps per revolution
Plate Numbers: “S” followed by four (4) single digits
Marginal Markings: © 2013 • USPS in peel strip area • Plate numbers in peel strip area
It would seem that the caves know nothing about this new version of the Flags of All Seasons with the 2014 date. Can anyone tell me how to identify the new version when calling them. 688400 does not seem to work. They identify this number with the APU version from 2013.
I called the SFC 3/26/14 to verify this stamp issue. You are correct in that they know nothing of this issue. However, they assured me they would send in an inquiry to the powers that be and get it listed on the USPS web site if and when the ordering info is available.
Using the USPS number of 688450 got me the stamps from the caves. Thanks to the article in Lynn’s weekly paper.
I have now placed the 2014 & 2015 Scott National supplements in my album and find no location for this issue. Have I missed something. Does Scott plan to include them in a future supp. or should they be mounted along side the earlier year issue. This same problem exists for the poinsettia and medal of honor reissues.
wonder how to identify the march 17 2014 ‘a flag for all season’ from the previous
issues.
Reissues are my biggest frustration in stamp collecting and it historically has happened in many countries, not just the U.S.