HURRAAAAAAAAAY!!! Weâve been waiting a looooong time to share this news: the United States Postal Service is issuing some shiny new Postcrossing stamps! Woohoo!
Itâs been a long road to get here: many of you have written to the USPS Citizensâ Stamp Advisory Committee over the years to ask for a Postcrossing stamp, and weâve also been working with USPS behind the scenes for quite a while to make this happen. Itâs finally happening, and what a huge honor it is for the community. A proper celebration of the joy, generosity, and curiosity that postcrossers put into the world every day.
Anyway, letâs talk about the stamps themselves⌠because: TRIANGLES! đ
The new Postcrossing stamps are triangular, which is a pretty rare format for USPS. And yes â that means you can place one right on the corner of a postcard for an especially cool look. Since there are four different stamps to choose from, you wonât always be sending (or receiving) the same ones. These are global forever stamps, which means they are the international postcard (or letter) rate, and you need one single stamp to send a postcard abroad.
Visually, theyâre a lot of fun: bold colors and playful scenes with lots of tiny details. They were designed by Antonio AlcalĂĄ and illustrated by Jackson Gibbs, and the result is energetic, bright, and unmistakably Postcrossing.
The launch day is May 26, 2026, and there will be a commemorative ceremony at the the Boston 2026 World Expo â and everyoneâs invited! Even better: there will be Postcrossing meetups every day of the show (which is free!), so bring postcards, say hi, and letâs celebrate together. No worries if you can't make it to Boston â like any other USPS stamps, these will be available online and at post offices around the country.
Weâll share more details (including meetup info and other products that will be available along with the stamps) as we get closer to the date. But for now, weâre just going to sit here grinning at these gorgeous triangles for a while.
USA postcrossers: are you ready? And everyone else: whoâs hoping to receive one of these on a postcard very soon?
