2023 US Stamp Designs Announced

When I started at the top of the list, I was not impressed by the selections.
Then I got to Chief Standing Bear and was very pleased. Next I saw Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Toni Morrison and the waterfalls I knew I was going to have to raise my stamp collecting budget.

Finally, I saw the school bus and it made me smile. I think this is the best one out of the whole bunch.

Chief Standing Bear will be a beautiful addition to my native American album. Can't wait

Hilarion - been happening for a few decades... took off in the 1960s.
Four cents letter rate ended in early January 1963.

Cincinnati's Union Terminal is an architectural gem. It actually inspired the Hall of Justice in the Super Friends cartoon of the 1970s.

I'm going to enjoy seeing it on a stamp.

More necessary issues for 2023 were announced: https://about.usps.com/newsroom/nat...for-2023.htm
I probably counted wrong, but my total new stamp count for 2023 now comes to 116. Wow!


Peter

That would be a great group of stamps, to have some sort of a representation of each of the major tribes on each stamp, whether it be a facial or full body drawing with them in traditional dress. They have actual photo's or sketches of many 19th chiefs of various tribes that could be used. That's a set of stamps that I would definitely get.

Really like the tulips... like the railroad station topic but not sure I like the designs... waterfalls pretty... school bus cute... LOVE and snow globes not bad... bridges nice... Life Magnified interesting...

(... keeping mouth shut on some of the topics...)

Yes, that might be what the PO had in mind, since they produced so many of the low denominated "fruit" stamps over the last half decade. Just gives people more options to make up the first class rate, and at the same time, it helps the PO reduce their inventory of overproduced low denominated stamps.

The terminals do not appear very like life like...no impact.

Picked up 3 sheets of the railroad station stamps... expected them to be small, but they are a decent size. While I prefer more realistic imagery, as a railfan I had to pick some up!

Looking at the current US Stamp Program listing on Linn's as of 14 March 2023, so far there has not been any announcement of a stamp issue to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

For those not familiar with the event (ex Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

In 1973 the Bicentenary of the event was celebrated by the USPS with a se-tenant block of four stamps



Now the USPS does tend to have a round of new stamp issue announcements later in the year for issues in the last part of a year, but it seems kind of surprising that there has been nothing mentioned regarding an issue marking what was the trigger that started the chain of events that would lead to the outbreak of conflict in Massachusetts in 1775 (Concord and Lexington) and the eventual Declaration of Independence in 1776.

I would think that there would be several issues marking key events leading to the Declaration of Independence anniversary in 2026 much as there was in the 1970s, but so far we have had almost nothing.

Do you think we will see an issue for the Tea Party 250th Anniversary this year?

I wonder whether the recent political meanings of the phrase "tea party" might be causing them to rethink it. I hope not, it was an important event that should be remembered.

I don't know about you but I'm anxiously awaiting the birds, flowers, and frozen treats of 1776.

I suppose 250 not being a multiple of 100 is not as enticing a subject, but yes, by 1973 there had already been bicentennial stamps issued. Since old white men are now almost verboten as stamp subjects, maybe USPS will simply put a big number 250 on a stamp, then repeatedly issue it in all possible color combinations of red, white, and blue.

The actual anniversary is still 9 months away. And since "old white men" dominated US stamps for 150 years, it's not as if they are underrepresented.

revcollector - THANK YOU, you said it for me!!! I still can't believe there's only two authentic tea chests in existence!