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Stamp Announcement 23-7: Florida Everglades Stamp

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On January 22, 2023, in Homestead, FL, the United States Postal Service^® will issue the $9.65 Florida Everglades Priority Mail^® stamp, in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of four stamps (Item 122300). This stamp will go on sale nationwide January 22, 2023, and must not be sold or canceled before the first-day-of-issue.

This Priority Mail stamp celebrates the Florida Everglades, one of the largest wetlands in the world and the most significant breeding ground for tropical wading birds in North America. The stamp art shows a sawgrass marsh as seen at sunset from the edge of a cypress dome. In the foreground, a stand of mature bald cypress trees shelters a great egret in flight while a great blue heron patiently awaits its prey. In the background, the marsh meanders toward the horizon, dotted with tree islands, as roseate spoonbills and other waterbirds fly overhead. Designed by art director Greg Breeding, the stamp showcases a digital illustration by Dan Cosgrove.

Availability to Post Offices: Item 122300, $9.65 Florida Everglades Priority Mail Pane of 4 Stamps

Stamp Fulfillment Services will not make an automatic push distribution to Post Offices. Post Offices may begin ordering stamps before the first-day-of-issue through SFS Web at sfsweb.usps.gov/sfsweb.

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 store.usps.com/store/home. 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 – Florida Everglades 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 May 22, 2023.

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 store.usps.com/store/home. 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.

— Stamp Services,
Marketing, 12-29-22