2014 USPS Issues... News? Thoughts? Opinions?

Honoring the Beatles with a stamp has as much to do with identifying a monumental shift in American culture (music, clothing, ideals, etc.) as it does with the pop group per se. Without the Beatles, America in the 1960s would have been very different; i.e., a Beatles stamp honors an entire American generation (Baby Boomers) and the decade (1960s) that played such a vital part in the Boomer's formative years. Bring on the Beatles stamp!

Jimi Hendrix please

The Shirley Chisholm Stamp artwork (with USPS B&W FDOI cancel, as shown). The USPS has apparently told Linn's Stamp News that the formal release of the stamp design will not be until the actual First Day of Issue on 1/31/2014.

*** Staff Edit - Image removed at the request of Linns ***

Well, if the image can't be posted, the link to the Linn's article will accomplish the same thing:

http://www.linns.com/news/chisholm....tm_campaign=

For those who find these sort of details interesting, this is the USPS artwork of the Lunar New Year (Year of the Horse) stamp:



And the actual stamp (enlarged) taken from a pane I purchased today. (Note the change in the location of the date, probably because the date wouldn't adhere well to the gold stripe at the bottom of the stamp):

I have just learned that the Febr. 3rd issue of Linn's is reporting on the new Ferns stamps. They will NOT be forever stamps, but denominated at 49 cents!

Peter

Actually, that makes sense, since the large coils are typically for high volume mailers and the USPS wants them to pay full price. Of course, with the so-called "exigent" postage increase, the stamps may be over-valued in a year or two when the "exigent" portion of the postage increase expires.

For anyone interested, the USPS Stamps website has adjusted the artwork for the upcoming stamps that were previously shown in the wrong denomination (because the price increase was not finalized when the artwork was revealed). The 66-cent Butterfly stamp is now correctly showing a value of 70-cents; the Abraham Lincoln stamp is now shown at 21-cents; and the Hummingbird stamp is now shown at 34-cents:

http://uspsstamps.com/stamps/preview

I previously posted this comment about possible Music Icon stamps for 2014:




I have since heard that apparently the Sarah Vaughan stamp has been nixed by the USPS Administration because she was not that well known to the public-at-large. (Of course, that reasoning is only a rumor, too.)

I think they should make some stamps that would appeal to kids to get them interested in collecting. How about some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or Pokemon, etc.. (I think Pokemon is dumb but there sure are a lot of kids that like anything Pokemon). I grew up in the 80's so Ninja Turtles was more what I was into when I was a kid.

Rumor has it that either Dora the Explorer or Hanna Barbera cartoons may make the so-called "appeal to kids" issue for later in the 2014 calendar year.

Hanna Barbera would be great! I loved the Jetson's and Flintstones. I don't know what kids today would think about them but the people in their late 20's though 60's will certainly enjoy them.

What I liked about this years Lunar New Years stamp is that the artwork crosses multiple stamps in a perpetual loop.

Today's USPS announcement for a new 2014 stamp is for the $1.15 Global Forever Stamp for international mail -- very colorful indeed!



http://uspsstamps.com/stamps/global...temperatures

Is that the first round stamp?

After looking at the list of 2014 US stamps, all I can say is yawn