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2025
Preliminary stamp program for 2025. Details from all USPS announcements are tentative and subject to change. All sheet or pane issues have plate numbers in four corners (UL, UR, LL, LR) unless otherwise specified.
Denominations in parentheses are Forever stamps, if first class rate, or nominal rate, if service-inscribed. The first class rate is 73¢ effective since January 21, 2024. The postcard rate is 53¢. International letters, also known as the Global airmail rate, are $1.55 per ounce (or for the first two ounces, for mail to Canada). Semi-postal stamps continued to be sold at 85¢, serving 73¢ in postage with a 12¢ charitable donation of about 16%. Coil stamps have plate numbers at the bottom center of single stamps and appear in the coil at the interval specified.
Plate numbers and copyright markings for self-adhesive booklet stamps or ATM panes appear on a peelable strip within the pane. Copyright, Pane Position Diagrams (PPD), ZIP code, math aids and other markings have appeared on the back of most regular issues for several years. As it does every year, USPS moved the tiny date appearing on new stamp designs. For 2025 issues, it appears vertically reading up, in the lower left corner.
Regular issues and commemoratives
(F) Lunar New Year: Year of the Stnake ($1.55) Compass Rose, global airmail (F) Love 2025 (F) Allen Toussaint (10¢) American Vistas, presorted standard coil, 2 designs (F) Appalachian Trail, 15 designs (53¢) Vibrant Leaves, postcard rate coil, 5 designs (F) Dahlias, 10 designs (F) U.S. Flag, booklet of 20 (F) U.S. Flag, coil of 100 (97¢) Luna Moth, non-machinable surcharge (F) Baby Wild Animals, booklet of 20, 10 designs (F) Betty White
Airmail issues Although the global airmail stamps of the last few years are intended to meet an airmail rate, they are actually valid for all types of mailings and there is no indication in the stamps' designs that they are primarily for airmail purposes. Therefore Scott assigns a regular catalog number rather than one with the traditional C prefix. We display images of these stamps at the end of the Modern Airmails web page, but with the non-airmal catalogue number that is assigned to them.
Hunting Permit stamps
$25 self-adhesive hunting permit stamp for 2025-2026 (preliminary Scott RW92) $25 hunting permit self-adhesive pane of 1 (preliminary Scott RW92A): no plate numbers
Official stamps Official stamps were "officially" discontinued in 2013. The handful of federal government agencies with remaining stock used up their existing stamps, then converted to forever stamps, meters and other postage payment methods.
The plate number information appearing on this page has been contributed by APNSS members Jim Cochrane and Rick Burdsall.
A complete listing and valuation of plate numbers, positions and other marginal markings will appear in the next edition of the Hebert's Catalog of Plate Number Singles.
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Opinions expressed by authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the APNSS, its officers or members.
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