{"id":20310,"date":"2026-02-17T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/?p=20310"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:31:33","slug":"us-adds-spring-dates-2-issues-us-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/?p=20310","title":{"rendered":"US Adds Spring Dates, 2 Issues (US 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>[press release] [click on any of the pictures for larger versions]<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #007abe; font-size: 21px;\"><strong>Happy Birthday Stamps Make A Come Back in 2026<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>First-day-of-issue dates, locations for spring and early summer releases also revealed<\/em><br \/>\nWASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Postal Service today announced two new stamps to be released later in 2026: Happy Birthday and a nonprofit-price stamp featuring a summer sunset. Additional stamp subjects will be announced in the coming weeks and months. These designs are preliminary and may change.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007abe;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_hapbirthday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20307\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_hapbirthday-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_hapbirthday-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_hapbirthday-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_hapbirthday.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Happy Birthday<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nFor the first time since 2021, the Postal Service will issue a stamp designed especially for birthday invitations, cards, letters and packages. \u201cI am excited that we are issuing new Happy Birthday stamps. Many customers have submitted ideas for occasion-specific stamps such as these and we are pleased to be able to fulfill this request from the public,\u201d said Lisa Bobb-Semple, USPS stamp services director. Lisa Congdon designed the stamp using her own artwork. The project was art directed by Greg Breeding.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #007abe;\">Summer Sunset<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_sunset.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20308\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_sunset-275x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_sunset-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_sunset-138x150.png 138w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s_sunset.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Summer Sunset is a new nondenominated, nonprofit-price stamp intended for bulk mailings by authorized nonprofit organizations. The stamp features an oil painting of a sunset in Menemsha, a small fishing village in the town of Chilmark, MA, on Martha\u2019s Vineyard by local artist Rachael Cassiani. \u201cSunsets are universally appealing,\u201d said Derry Noyes, an art director for USPS who designed the stamp. \u201cA postage stamp that celebrates looking out over a body of water at the end of a summer day seems to fit well for a nonprofit organization.\u201d Summer Sunset will be sold in self-adhesive coils of 3,000 and 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service also announced release dates and locations for many stamp issues in spring and early summer. <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/spring26chart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20309\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/spring26chart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/spring26chart.png 1024w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/spring26chart-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/spring26chart-150x47.png 150w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/spring26chart-500x155.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[press release] [click on any of the pictures for larger versions] Happy Birthday Stamps Make A Come Back in 2026 First-day-of-issue dates, locations for spring and early summer releases also revealed WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Postal Service today announced two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/?p=20310\">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-20310","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\/20310","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=20310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20311,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20310\/revisions\/20311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}