{"id":19914,"date":"2025-11-11T23:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/?p=19914"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:20:17","slug":"speculation-u-s-issues-at-boston-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/?p=19914","title":{"rendered":"Speculation: U.S. Issues at Boston 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by VSC editor Lloyd A. de Vries<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The show is May 23-30.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston2026_new.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9305\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston2026_new-144x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston2026_new-144x150.png 144w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston2026_new-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston2026_new.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a>The winner of the &#8220;Encore&#8221; vote will be announced and issued, at the same time, during the show.<\/li>\n<li>There will be 6 or 7 first-days during the show, and all but one will be se-tenant issues.<\/li>\n<li>The illustration of the full pane for the American Bison stamp says &#8220;Boston 2026 World Stamp Show.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>There are rumors that Route 66 will be issued at the show.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve heard that the USPS does not want to release a <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_amrevfigures_pane.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-19804\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_amrevfigures_pane-108x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_amrevfigures_pane-108x150.png 108w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_amrevfigures_pane-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_amrevfigures_pane-740x1024.png 740w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_amrevfigures_pane.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 108px) 100vw, 108px\" \/><\/a>new issue on the last day of the show, because at the 2016 U.S. international in New York, the cancelers were struggling to finish up all the cancellation requests before the end of the show, and ended up taking some of the covers back to Kansas City to complete them.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing says &#8220;stamp show souvenir&#8221; like a 25-stamp issue (Figures of the American Revolution).<\/li>\n<li>When the USPS issues press releases listing a bunch of new issues, they are roughly in chronological order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Therefore, I will predict these announced issues will be released during the show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>E<a href=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_beach.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-19819\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_beach-117x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_beach-117x150.png 117w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_beach-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/s_beach.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a>ncore<\/li>\n<li>A Day at the Beach<\/li>\n<li>Route 66<\/li>\n<li>Figures of the American Revolution<\/li>\n<li>Bald Eagles<\/li>\n<li>American Bison<\/li>\n<li>International Peace (even though that would be a second single-design issue)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by VSC editor Lloyd A. de Vries Here&#8217;s what we know: The show is May 23-30. The winner of the &#8220;Encore&#8221; vote will be announced and issued, at the same time, during the show. There will be 6 or 7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/?p=19914\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19915,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914\/revisions\/19915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}