This stamp will only be available with the purchase of a “prestige booklet,” Putting a Stamp 
on the American Experience, “only the fourth ever issued by the Postal Service.” According to the April 28th press release
Two self-adhesive sheets of a new intaglio printed stamp featuring Benjamin Franklin are available exclusively with the booklet. The stamp is based on an 1875 reproduction of an 1847 5-cent stamp, one of the first official U.S. postage stamps.
The USPS says this issue will be released in July. More details will be posted below the line, with the most recent nearest the top.
Updated June 11th:
According to Foster Miller, this stamp will be issued July 23 in Washington.
Updated May 2nd:
This stamp will have a “special dedication ceremony” on the second day of Great American Stamp Show, August 15th, in Schaumburg, IL. It is believed the first-day will be July 26th.
Before I rip this stamp I’d like to see what the booklet looks like. If it is anything like the image what a waste of paper, time etc;. I mean they came up with a beautiful stamp of Washington & Franklin at NY 2016, and this is the best we can come up with in 2025,
Looks like they mimeographed it from an auction catalog and threw some lettering on it. A 5 year old could do better.
SO VERY SAD.
And the VERY SAD part is that I’ll more than likely buy it.
Any good rumors how many stamps are we going to be stuck with in the “prestige booklet”? I’m an old FDC collector, who regrets single-color half-tone conventional-subject stamps ever ceased being the norm. But that also means I’m a sucker for any remotely throwback design (even if it could be criticized).
So I will almost certainly buy this one–even if I skip something else. But I’ll feel more suckered than prestigious if I have to buy more than 20 to get the booklet, and I hope it contains far fewer than that. I’m already way overloaded on 2025 stamps.
I feel your pain: I still have Autumn Colors stamps I’m trying to use up.
The press release quoted in the first part of this page says “two self-adhesive sheets.” Given that it looks like the standard 1.56″x0.98″ commemorative, i’d guess each sheet will have 20 stamps. But it’s just a guess.