New US Stamps, coming soon.

Many of you may see a little snow in your mailbox this holiday season. For 2013, USPS will issue five new Presorted Standard stamps featuring photographs of snowflakes. The stamps will be issued in coil format and are intended for use by bulk mailers. Let it snow!


Hidden Treasure Game!! quote this post.

Oh my goodness, don't these look divine?! For the winter holiday season this year we'll be issuing Gingerbread Houses, a set of four Forever® stamps perfect for all your holiday correspondence. The stamps will be available later this year, but you can start planning how to use them now.

We bet you thought the 2013 stamp reveals were over. Think again! Here's your first look at a Forever® stamp that USPS will release later this year to commemorate the two most important festivals—or eids—in the Islamic Calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting, while Eid al-Adha comes at the end of the hajj, the annual period of pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. The stamp features calligraphy from the 2011 Eid stamp with a beautiful new green background. A release date has not yet been set.

For the same reason that they cross the value tablets - stop someone grabbing an image and printing their own stamps

I didn`t put those "my fingers are crossed" thingies in there intentionally!

One of the many pointless things Governments do.

I'm not sure about other catalogs, but Mystic has a line going across the bottom corner of all the stamps in the catalog just to prevent the printing of one's own stamps and prevent forgeries.