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2026
Preliminary stamp program for 2026. 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. Since July 13, 2025, the first class rate has been 78¢, extra ounce 29¢, postcard rate 61¢, and the Global airmail rate $1.70 per ounce (or for the first two ounces, for mail to Canada). Semi-postal stamps are 90¢, serving 78¢ in postage with a 12¢ donation of a bit over 15%. In addition, the surcharge for non-machinable mail is $1.27; it no longer matches the 2-ounce rate, although this has merely been a coincidence when these rates matched in the past. Coil stamps have plate numbers at the bottom center of single stamps and appear in the coil roll 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 appeared vertically reading up, in the lower left corner.
Regular issues and commemoratives
4¢ Angel's Trumpets pane of 20, addition to the low denomination Flowers stamps 4¢ Angel's Trumpets coil of 10,000 (F) Muhammad Ali and imperf (F) Love (2 oz.) Love (F) Colorado statehood and imperf (F) Phyllis Wheatley and imperf (F) Lunar Year of the Horse and imperf: p# in LL and LR (F) Bruce Lee and imperf (F) Harriet Powers and imperf (F) Lowriders (five designs) (F) Sunflowers booklet of 20: p# at L and R (F) Encore issue, reissue of past design to be determined by popular vote (F) A Day at the Beach (four designs) (F) American Revolution figures (25 designs) (F) Route 66 (eight designs) (F) Bald Eagles (five designs) (F) American Bison, featuring example of the 30¢ Fourth Buerau issue, Scott 569 (F) International Peace (origami dove) (F) Declaration of Independence (3 oz.) Sarah Orne Jewett (F) Squirrels and Chipmunks booklet of 20: p# at T and B (F) Traditional Christmas issue, booklet of 20
Airmail issues Although the global airmail stamps of the last few years are intended to meet an international airmail rate, they are actually valid for all types of mailings. As there is no indication in the stamps' designs that they are restricted to or primarily intended for airmail purposes, Scott assigns a regular catalog number rather than one with the traditional C prefix. We display additional images of these stamps at the end of the Modern Airmails web page, but with the non-airmail catalog number that is assigned to each issue.
Hunting Permit stamps $25 self-adhesive hunting permit stamp for 2026-2027 (preliminary Scott RW93): $25 hunting permit self-adhesive pane of 1 (preliminary Scott RW93A): no plate numbers $25 hunting permit E-Stamp pane of 1 (preliminary Scott RW93B): no plate numbers
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, along with catalog pricing, 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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