Self-adhesive stamps

LICK

no more

Stick the landing! In 1992, pressure-sensitive, self-adhesive stamps rolled out nationally. By 2005, 98 percent of all stamps were this type. Today, all stamps are sticky.

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First Forever stamp issued in 2007

ALWAYS

and forever

The Postal Service’s first Forever stamp featured an image of the Liberty Bell and was issued on April 12, 2007, and dedicated at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall.

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Stamps supporting causes in public interest

STAMPS

supporting causes

Semipostal stamps are First-Class Mail stamps sold at a price above the cost of a regular stamp to raise funds for designated causes. The dollar amounts below represent the funds we have transferred to the causes listed.

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Supporting causes in the public interest.

Semipostal stamps are First-Class Mail stamps sold at a price above the cost of a regular stamp to raise funds for designated causes. The dollar amounts below represent the funds the Postal Service has transferred to the causes listed.

  • The Breast Cancer Research semipostal stamp
    has raised nearly $98 million since 1998. More than
    1.1 billion Breast Cancer Research stamps have
    been sold.
  • The Save Vanishing Species semipostal stamp has
    raised more than $8.2 million since 2011. Nearly
    69 million Save Vanishing Species stamps have
    been sold.
  • The Alzheimer’s semipostal stamp has raised
    nearly $1.6 million since 2017. More than 11 million
    Alzheimer’s stamps have been sold.
  • The Healing PTSD semipostal stamp has raised
    more than $2.2 million since 2019. More than
    18 million Healing PTSD stamps have been sold.

Stamps printed

USPS
13.8 billion

postage stamps printed

In 2024, 13.82 billion U.S. postage stamps were printed, and USPS received $4.01 billion in revenue from stamps and stamp product orders received by mail, telephone at 1-800-STAMP-24 and online at usps.com/stamps.

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Postage stamps are miniature works of art designed to reflect the American experience. Stamps highlight heroes, history, milestones, achievements and natural wonders. There’s a story behind every stamp.

Stamp made a flyby of Pluto

USPS
OUTER SPACE

postage stamp

Out of this world! A postage stamp was inside the New Horizons spacecraft that made a flyby of Pluto in July 2015. That’s the farthest distance traveled by a postage stamp — more than 3 billion miles, as noted by Guinness World Records.

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The “PlutoNot Yet Explored” 29-cent stamp was part of a set of solar system stamps that were issued in 1991.