From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

This booklet of 20 stamps features three of winter’s most spirited small mammals: two eastern chipmunks, an eastern gray squirrel, and an American red squirrel. The designs capture the resourcefulness and adaptability that help these animals thrive when temperatures drop. From busy foragers to cozy hibernators, they remind us that winter can be full of charm. “When you see the booklet as a whole, the animals’ faces popping up from the snow has a playful effect,” explains Derry Noyes, an art director for USPS who designed the issuance. “The stamps are fun and uplifting. I hope they make people smile, especially in the heart of winter.”

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From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

The 35th stamp in the Literary Arts series honors Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), a lifelong resident of Maine and a foundational figure in American literary regionalism. Her strong female characters have led to a renewed interest in her work, which includes hundreds of short stories as well as novels, poetry and essays. Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp using an original portrait of Jewett by Mark Summers, with the Maine coast as background, broken by a large ray of sunshine that evokes a scene from her best-known novel, “The Country of the Pointed Firs” (1896).

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From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

As the nation marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Postal Service pays tribute to the document that gave voice to America’s founding ideals. Designed and created by Juan Carlos Pagan, the stamp art features a typographic treatment of “1776,” the year the declaration was adopted. Each numeral takes the shape of a feather quill pen, a nod to the instruments used to sign the nation’s founding document. Pagan worked under the direction of Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS.

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Updated February 17^th:
This stamp will be issued July 4 in Philadelphia.

From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

Celebrating the goal of international peace, this stamp features a photograph of an origami crane — a global symbol of hope, peace and healing. The crane was folded by artist and Peace Crane Project founder Sue DiCicco and photographed by Sally Andersen-Bruce. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp.

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From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

The buffalo’s epic story has played an enduring role in shaping America’s identity. Honoring our national mammal while saluting historic philately, this unique stamp features a contemporary photograph of a bison, inset with artwork evoking a 1923 stamp issued when the species was beginning to rebound from near extinction. Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp using Tom Murphy’s existing photograph and artwork from the century-old stamp, now printed in intaglio.

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Updated November 10^th:
The stamp on which this design is based in Scott 569:Brookman lists a price for a fair copy at $25, although I see much lower prices on eBay.

Updated November 9^th:
As pointed out by Lefty Dundee, here is what the full pane will look like.That does seem to indicate that it will be a Forever stamp, or at least not a high value, as I had thought. Note also that the pane’s selvage indicates this will be issued at Boston 2026, May 23-30.

From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

Since the early days of the republic, these magnificent raptors have appeared on numerous stamps. For a new take on this American icon, the Postal Service will issue a pane of stamps featuring realistic illustrations of bald eagles at different stages of life. Derry Noyes, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps using original paintings by ornithologist and illustrator David Allen Sibley. “While the bald eagle is known to virtually all Americans as our national bird, few people know much about them,” says Sibley. “Showing the series of life stages in these stamps is a simple and visual way to emphasize that the familiar adult eagle has already lived through a series of transitional plumages, finding food, migrating and surviving all of life’s challenges. I hope these stamps spark curiosity and a greater appreciation for the lives of eagles.”

The issue’s formal name is “Bald Eagles: From Hatching To Adult.”

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Updated February 25^th:
The National Eagle Center is located in Wabasha. Wikipedia page. Official website. As of this date, there is no mention of the stamps on its website.

Updated February 17^th:
These stamps will be issued May 14 in Wabasha, Minn.

From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

With these stamps, the Postal Service celebrates the 100th anniversary of Route 66, the legendary highway that originally stretched about 2,400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles. Dubbed “The Mother Road” by author John Steinbeck, Route 66 forever changed how Americans travel and became a symbol of freedom and adventure. The pane of 16 stamps includes photographs by David Schwartz from each of the eight states Route 66 passes through, with each one repeated twice. The selvage features a photo by Schwartz of the open road rolling through hills in Crookton, AZ, along the longest continuous drivable stretch of Route 66 in the state.

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Updated February 17^th:
These stamps will be issued May 5 in Phoenix.

Updated November 25^th:

As requested by VSC member J.G. Haught, and provided by USPS spokesman Jim McKean:

In the first and third rows, the Route 66 shield is in the top left corner of each stamp, with “USA” running vertically below it in white. “FOREVER” is in the bottom right corner. From left to right:

• A turquoise 1957 Chevy Bel Air is parked in front of the Munger Moss Motel, built in 1946 in Lebanon, Missouri;
• a Ford Model A drives along a brick-paved segment of Route 66 in Auburn, Illinois;
• the replica Oil Capital Motel neon sign at sunrise at the Cyrus Avery Plaza Southwest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, featuring signs that originally stood along the road in Tulsa;
• the Grants Cafe neon sign, originally from Grants, New Mexico, now held at Glorieta Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a few blocks from Route 66.

In the second and fourth rows, the Route 66 shield is in the top right corner of each stamp, with “USA” running vertically below it in white. From left to right:

• The Tower Station and U-Drop Inn Café glows at night in Shamrock, Texas;
• a restored Kan-O-Tex pump in Galena, Kansas;
• Motel sign in Yucca, Arizona;
• Beverly Hills City Hall, built in 1932 in Beverly Hills, California.

From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States, this pane pays tribute to 25 individuals whose ideas, leadership and sacrifices were vital to achieving American independence and shaping the new nation. Representing a range of roles and perspectives, from political thinkers and military leaders to writers, diplomats and everyday citizens, the honorees reflect the collective effort that defined the Revolution. Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS, designed the pane, which features original artwork by 13 contemporary artists.

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Updated February 17^th:
These stamps will be issued April 10 in Washington, DC.

Here’s what the pane, with selvage, will look like:

Here’s a list of the 25 people:

• • Abigail Adams
  • John Adams
  • Abwalongdongwas
  • James Armistead
  • Cornplanter
  • John Dickinson
  • Benjamin Franlin
  • Elizabeth Freeman
  • Bernardo de Galvez
  • Nathaniel Greene
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Lemuel Haynes
  • Patrick Henry
  • John Jay
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Thaddeus Kosciuszko
  • Marquis de Lafayette
  • James Madison
  • Thomas Payne
  • Esther de Berdt Reed
  • Paul Revere
  • Deborah Sampson
  • Baron von Steuben
  • Mercy Otis Warren
  • George Washington

From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

For millions of Americans, the beach is the ultimate vacation. Derry Noyes, an art director for USPS, says these stamps were inspired by her annual summertime trips to beaches in New England. “These little snapshots are reminiscent of those experiences — a break from busy lives and demands throughout the year,” she says. Noyes was drawn to the vitality and “fresh, bold spontaneity” that Gregory Manchess brings to the oil paintings shown on the stamps. “He captures the essence of the subject, even at a very small scale,” she says. “Greg has managed to make these scenes instantly recognizable with just the right amount of visual information.”

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Updated February 17^th:
These stamps will be issued April 24 in Burlingame, Calif., with a local ceremony (WESTPEX stamp show).

From the USPS on October 29, 2025:

Available in booklets of 20, this issuance offers the public an attractive stamp for mail use and pays homage to the sunflower, prized by both gardeners and pollinators as a dependable source of nectar and seeds for birds, bees and butterflies. Illustrator Nancy Stahl, who has created more than 40 stamp designs for the Postal Service, says she used as few colors as possible to enhance the brilliance of the sunflowers within the small frame of the stamp. Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp using Stahl’s original digital art.

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Updated February 10^th:
Here are the first-day postmarks for this issue: The Digital Color Postmark measures 2.99″ x 1.44″There is no Pictorial Postmark for this issue, just the FDOI “killer bars.”

Updated February 5^th:
Surprisingly, according to the Postal Bulletin, there will be a Digital Color Postmark for this issue.

On March 14, 2026, in Strongsville, OH, the United States Postal Service® will issue the Sunflowers stamp (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate), in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) double-sided booklet of 20 stamps (Item 685800). This stamp will go on sale nationwide March 14, 2026, and must not be sold or canceled before the first-day-of-issue.

This new stamp, available in a booklet of 20, highlights the beauty of sunflowers. The stamp is a stylized illustration of four sunflowers with blossoms rendered in gold and brown and leaves and stems in shades of green against a pale yellow background. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamp with original art by Nancy Stahl.

Item 685800, Sunflowers (Forever Priced at the First-Class Mail Rate) Double-sided booklet of 20 Stamps

No automatic distribution.

How to Order the First-Day-of-Issue Postmark:
The first-day-of-issue postmark is a postmark notating the day a stamp is first authorized for use by the Postal Service™. Customers have 120 days to obtain the first-day-of-issue postmark by mail. All requests for first-day-of-issue postmarks (Traditional or Digital Color Postmark) must be sent to the following address with the choice of Traditional or Digital Color Postmark identified. All orders must be postmarked by July 14, 2026.

FDOI – Sunflowers Stamp
USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services
8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300
Kansas City, MO 64144-9900

Technical details are not yet available.

Updated December 12^th:
This stamp will be issued Saturday, March 14, at the Garfield-Perry Stamp Show in Strongville, OH, a Cleveland suburb.