Stamp Announcement 20-07: Let’s Celebrate! Stamp

FDOI - Let's Celebrate Stamp

On February 14, 2020, in Mesa, AZ, the United States Postal Service® will issue the Let’s Celebrate! stamp (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate) in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 572500). The stamp will go on sale nationwide February 14, 2020, and must not be sold or canceled before the first-day-of-issue.

The Postal Service™ is pleased to issue Let’s Celebrate!, a new stamp that adds an extra dash of fun to celebratory greeting cards, invitations, and gift-bearing envelopes and packages. No matter the occasion — birthday, anniversary, holiday, engagement, new job, retirement — Let‘s Celebrate! will help send cheer to those deserving of well wishes. The stamp art features an array of colorful circles in varying sizes arranged in a random pattern. The letters in the word “celebrate,” cast in a dark green hue, appear inside several brightly colored circles on a white background. Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp.

Availability to Post Offices: Item 572500, Let’s Celebrate! (Forever Priced at the First-Class Mail Rate) PSA Pane of 20 Stamps

Stamp Fulfillment Services will make an automatic push distribution to Post Offices of a quantity to cover approximately 30 days of sales. Distribution quantities for the automatic push distribution will be available by logging on to SFS Web at sfsweb.usps.gov. Post Offices may begin ordering stamps on the first-day-of-issue through SFS Web; offices must also check the amount they will receive in their automatic push distribution.

How to Order the First-Day-of-Issue Postmark

Customers have 120 days to obtain the first-day-of-issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™ or at The Postal Store® website at usps.com/shop. They must affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes (to themselves or others), and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:

FDOI – Let’s Celebrate! Stamp
USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services
8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300
Kansas City, MO 64144-9900

After applying the first-day-of-issue postmark, the Postal Service™ will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark up to a quantity of 50. There is a 5-cent charge for each additional postmark over 50. All orders must be postmarked by June 14, 2020.

How to Order First-Day Covers

The Postal Service also offers first-day covers for new stamp issues and Postal Service stationery items postmarked with the official first-day-of-issue cancellation. Each item has an individual catalog number and is offered in the USA Philatelic catalog and online at usps.com/shop. Customers may register to receive a free USA Philatelic catalog online at usps.com/philatelic.

Locally produced items are not authorized. Only merchandise that has been approved and assigned an item number by Headquarters Retail Marketing may be produced and sold.

 

Issue:

Let’s Celebrate! Stamp

Item Number:

572500

Denomination &
Type of Issue:

First-Class Mail Forever

Format:

Pane of 20 (1 design)

Series:

N/A

Issue Date & City:

February 14, 2020, Mesa, AZ 85201

Art Director:

Antonio Alcalá, Alexandria, VA

Designer:

Antonio Alcalá, Alexandria, VA

Typographer:

Antonio Alcalá, Alexandria, VA

Modeler:

Sandra Lane/Michelle Finn

Manufacturing Process:

Foil Stamping, Offset, Flexographic, Microprint

Printer:

Banknote Corporation of America

Press Type:

Gallus RCS

Stamps per Pane:

20

Print Quantity:

300,000,000 stamps

Paper Type:

Phosphor Tagged Paper, Block

Adhesive Type:

Pressure-sensitive

Processed at:

Banknote Corporation of America

Colors:

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Pantone Cool Gray 7

Other:

Magenta Foil Luxor 28612, Teal Foil Luxor 361, Orange Foil Luxor 404

Stamp Orientation:

Horizontal

Image Area (w x h):

1.42 x 0.84 in./ 36.068 x 21.336 mm

Overall Size (w x h):

1.56 x 0.98 in./39.624 x 24.892 mm

Full Pane Size (w x h):

6 x 7.24 in./152.4 x 183.896 mm

Plate Size:

160 stamps per revolution

Plate Numbers:

“B” followed by five (5) single digits

Marginal Markings:

Front:

Plate number in four corners

Back:

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