Announced by the USPS on July 28th:
Celebrate the holidays with Holiday Delights. Inspired by folk art but with a modern graphic vibe, these charming stamps will add a touch of whimsy to your holiday mailings. With a traditional palette of red, green and white, illustrator Kirsten Ulve channeled her love of Christmas, vintage ornaments and Scandinavian folk art to create unique digital illustrations of four holiday icons: a prancing reindeer with antlers; an ornament tied with a bow and ready to hang; a tree topped with a star; and a stocking holding a teddy bear and a sprig of holly. Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamps.
These stamps will be issued September 24th.
New information will appear below the line, with the latest at the top.
Updated August 18th:
Here are the first-day postmarks for this issue:
The Digital Color Postmark measures 2.69″ x 1.43″
The Pictorial Postmark measures 2.56″ x 1.23″
Updated August 14th from the Postal Bulletin:
On September 24, 2020, in Frankenmuth, MI, the United States Postal Service® will issue the Holiday Delights stamps (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate) in four designs, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) booklet of 20 stamps (Item 682800). The stamps will go on sale nationwide September 24, 2020, and must not be sold or canceled before the first-day-of-issue.
Celebrate the holidays with Holiday Delights, four new stamps inspired by folk art but with a modern graphic vibe. These charming stamps will add a touch of whimsy to your holiday mailings. With a traditional palette of red, green, and white, illustrator Kirsten Ulve channeled her love of Christmas, vintage ornaments, and Scandinavian folk art to create unique digital illustrations of four holiday icons:
- A prancing reindeer with antlers,
- An ornament tied with a bow and ready to hang,
- A tree topped with a star, and
- A stocking holding a teddy bear and a sprig of holly.
Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamps.
No automatic distribution of Item 682800, Holiday Delights booklet of 20 stamps
How to Order the First-Day-of-Issue Postmark:
Customers have 120 days to obtain the first-day-of-issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™ or at The Postal Store® website at usps.com/shop. They must affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the 
envelopes (to themselves or others), and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:
FDOI – Holiday Delights Stamps
USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services
8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300
Kansas City, MO 64144-9900
After applying the first-day-of-issue postmark, the Postal Service™ will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark up to a quantity of 50. There is a 5-cent charge for each additional postmark over 50. All orders must be postmarked by January 24, 2021.
Technical Specifications:
Issue: Holiday Delights Stamps
Item Number: 682800
Denomination & Type of Issue: First-Class Mail Forever
Format: Double-sided Booklet of 20 (4 designs)
Series: Christmas Contemporary
Issue Date & City: September 24, 2020, Frankenmuth, MI 48734
Art Director: Antonio Alcalá, Alexandria, VA
Designer: Antonio Alcalá, Alexandria, VA
Illustrator: Kirsten Ulve, New York, NY
Modeler: Sandra Lane/Michelle Finn
Manufacturing Process: Offset
Printer: Banknote Corporation of America
Press Type: Alprinta 74
Stamps per Booklet: 20
Print Quantity: 450,000,000 stamps
Paper Type: Phosphor Tagged Paper, Block Tagged
Adhesive Type: Pressure-sensitive
Processed at: Banknote Corporation of America
Colors: Black, Pantone 2035 Red, Pantone 1765 Lt Red, Pantone 355 Green
Stamp Orientation: Vertical
Image Area (w x h): 0.77 x 1.05 in./19.558 x 26.67 mm
Overall Size (w x h): 0.91 x 1.19 in./23.114 x 30.226 mm
Full Booklet Size (w x h): 5.743 x 2.375 in./145.872 x 60.325 mm
Plate Size: 800 stamps per revolution
Plate Numbers: “B” followed by four (4) single digits in peel strip area
Marginal Markings: Header: Holiday Delights 20 First-Class Forever Stamps • Plate number in peel strip area • ©2020 USPS in peel strip area • Barcode • Promotional text in peel strip area
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