Past Stamps From USPS

Does the USPS sell stamps older than the current year? If so, where are they listed on their site?

They discontinue sales on older stamps pretty quickly. Your best bet would be to purchase the collections they have for whole years. 2015 is probably still on sale and maybe even 2014.

Try searching by denomination (over/under 47c), or by using one of the 'topical' tabs.

Not complete, but you can fill some gaps.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Edited to add: sometimes it is easier to search from outside the site, eg:

lunar site:store.usps.com

The USPS tends to stop selling stamps a year or two after they're issued. It's okay though: if you're starting out collecting US issues and need to fill older spaces, you can find much better deals on the secondary market, anyway.

Consider discount postage lots, for example. Most older US issues can be found MNH for around 70% of face in postage lots, sometimes even lower. The downside is you'll have to buy in quantity to get that kind of discount, and you'll usually wind up with a lot of duplicates. If you're in the US you can always use the surplus as postage at full face. If you send a lot of mail, or can sell or trade the duplicates you get, that may be much cheaper than other options.

Sometimes you find sellers (usually on ebay) selling all different postage lots. You'll usually pay more like 90-100% of face for lots like those, but the lack of duplication is a plus.

There are some issues that rarely or never turn up in postage lots -- press sheets, imperfs, some of the souvenir sheets, etc. -- if those are desired you should talk to a local dealer. You might even find a nearby dealer willing to sell year sets at face value; they're buying massive lots at half face or less, they can afford it.

Thanks to all for your responses.