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stamps over the years, and stamps picturing flowers have long been popular with the mailing public. To encourage reblooming, Iannotti recommends removing the spent blooms, a process that botanists refer to as deadheading.įlowers have appeared on numerous U.S. Blooms peak in late spring to early summer and again in late summer to early fall,” Iannotti said. “African daisies work equally well in the ground or in containers. “The center disks of the flowers even can look like they’re colored with metallic paint,” said author and master gardener Marie Iannotti in an article on the website. They require ample amounts of sunlight and thrive in soil with reliable drainage. The Postal Service is not making an automatic push distribution to post offices, so some locations might not have the stamp in stock on the issue date.Īfrican daisies are similar to common daisies, having petals that radiate from a central disk. The new African Daisy stamp is sold in panes of 10, but smaller quantities and single stamps can be purchased at post offices. That stamp was issued not quite two years ago, April 24, 2020, and is still on sale from the USPS.

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The previous stamp in the global forever series (Scott 5460) illustrates a pink chrysanthemum. Since then, the global forever rate has increased just 20¢ (roughly 18 percent) in nine years. The first issue in the global forever series, the 2013 Planet Earth (Scott 4740), had a face value of $1.10 at the time of issue. That rate increased from $1.20 to $1.30 on Aug. Global forever stamps are always valid for the current first-class international letter rate for machineable mail weighing 1 ounce or less. That airmail series is the last one listed in the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers. The global forever stamps effectively eclipsed the Scenic American Landscapes airmail stamps issued from 1999 to 2012. The round shape and the “GLOBAL” inscription are designed to alert users that the global forever stamp is intended for international mail. (The first forever issues were the Liberty Bell stamps issued in 2007.) The global forever stamp concept was developed following public acceptance of the domestic-rate forever stamp for letter mail sent within the United States.

Each digit represents one of the colors used to print the stamp: black, cyan, magenta, yellow, Pantone Matching System 158C orange and PMS 6C black. Gicker, director of the Postal Service’s Stamp Services division, served as art director.Īshton Potter USA Ltd., one of two contract printers for the USPS, printed 60 million stamps in a quantity of 6 million panes of 10.Ī plate number consisting of a “P” followed by six single digits is printed in the four corners of the pane.

“The photo was shot from above and shows the detail of the central disk formed by tiny tubular florets surrounded by petal-like ray florets,” the Postal Service said.

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