U.S. Postal Service Announces Holiday, Elie Wiesel Stamps
Dates and locations for releases through September are also revealed
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service today announced its latest set of stamps celebrating the holiday season as well as a new issue honoring humanitarian Elie Wiesel. These designs are preliminary and subject to change.
Holiday Cheer
Four new designs in this booklet of 20 stamps usher in the holiday season: a trio of amaryllis flowers, a holly wreath, an evergreen branch decorated with fruit, and cardinals perched on mistletoe. The images were created using a collage technique with gouache and acrylic paint on background paper from a vintage gardening book. The shapes for each image were then cut out and pasted onto an archival cotton board. Derry Noyes, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps with original artwork by Denise Fiedler.
Elie Wiesel
The 18th stamp in the Distinguished Americans series honors humanitarian Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), a survivor of Nazi concentration camps whose dozens of works bore witness to the Holocaust and whose resilience and compassion continue to be a source of inspiration. This stamp for 2-ounce mail features a 1999 black-and-white photograph of Wiesel by Sergey Bermeniev. Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp.
Dates and locations:
The Postal Service today also announced stamp release dates and locations for all announced stamps through the end of the year:
Stamps | Release | City | State | ZIP |
Putting a Stamp on the American Experience | July 23 | Washington | DC | 20066 |
250 Years of Delivering | July 23 | Washington | DC | 20066 |
"SpongeBob SquarePants" | Aug. 1 | New York | NY | 10199 |
Boston 2026 World Stamp Show | Aug. 14 | Schaumburg | IL | 60194 |
Luna Moth (nonmachinable surcharge) | Aug. 16 | Schaumburg | IL | 60194 |
William F. Buckley Jr. | Sept. 9 | New Haven | CT | 06511 |
Holiday Cheer | Sept. 13 | Washington | DC | 20066 |
Elie Wiesel | Sept. 17 | New York | NY | 10199 |
Winter Landscapes | Sept. 19 | Danville | IN | 46122 |
Details on first-day-of-issue cities/ceremony locations for other 2025 stamps will be released throughout the year. Dates and locations are subject to change.
Postal Products
Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through The Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic or at select Post Office locations nationwide. For officially licensed stamp products, shop the USPS Officially Licensed Collection on Amazon. The stories behind the stamps and more are available at stampsforever.com.
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Contact: James McKean
jim.mckean@usps.gov
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