Announced by the USPS on October 24, 2022.

Close-up photographs of 10 beautiful tulips in a rainbow of colors grace this new booklet of 20 stamps. One blossom fills almost the entire frame of each stamp, with just the top of a stem peeking out from underneath. Since Dutch immigrants brought tulip bulbs to North America hundreds of years ago, the flower has become a dazzling part of our landscape. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamps with existing photographs by Denise Ippolito.

New information will appear below the line, with the most recent at the top.

Updated June 6^th:
Here are the Scott catalogue numbers for this issue:
Coil stamps:
5767 Pink tulip with yellowish base
5768 Purple tulip with white base
5769 Pink and orange tulip
5770 Lilac tulip
5771 Orange and red tulip
5772 Dark purple tulip
5773 Brownish tulip with white base
5774 Pink tulip with white base
5775 Pink tulip with yellowish background
5776 White tulip with purplish base
a. Horiz. strip of 10, #5767-5776

Booklet stamps:
5777 Brownish tulip with white base
5778 Pink tulip with yellowish base
5779 Pink tulip with white base
5780 Orange and red tulip
5781 Purple tulip with white base
5782 Lilac tulip
5783 Pink and orange tulip
5784 Dark purple tulip
5785 White tulip with purplish base
5786 Pink tulip with white background
a. Block of 10, #5777-5786
b. Convertible booklet pane of 20, 2 each #5777-5786

Updated February 23^rd:

Here are the first-day postmarks for this issue:The Digital Color Postmark measures 2.44″ x 1.50″There is no pictorial postmark for this issue, only the “standard killerbar.”

[first-day ceremony details] [click on any of the pictures for larger versions]
Tulips Blossom on New Forever Stamps

What: The U.S. Postal Service celebrates spring and Americans’ love for tulips with the issuance of Tulip Blossoms Forever stamps.

The first-day-of-issue event for the Tulip Blossoms Forever stamp is open to the public. News of the stamp is being shared with the hashtag #TulipBlossomsStamps.

Who: Linda Malone, engineering systems vice president, U.S. Postal Service, will serve as dedicating official.

When: Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at 11 a.m. PT

Where: Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival
33814 S Meridian Road
Woodburn, OR 97071

RSVP: The Postal Service has purchased a limited number of tickets which are required to enter the festival. Please RSVP at usps.com/tulipblossoms to sign up for a ticket.

Background: Each fall, millions of gardeners bury bulbs in the earth, eagerly anticipating the rewards that springtime will bring. Months later, thick green leaves poke through the soil, soon revealing their treasure: tulip blossoms in spectacular variety from prim to ostentatious.

A member of the lily family (Liliaceae), the tulip (genus Tulipa) originated as a wildflower in Central Asia. Dutch immigrants brought the first tulip bulbs to America hundreds of years ago. Today, we import more than 1 billion bulbs per year.

These new stamps from the Postal Service feature closeup views of 10 different tulips in a rainbow of colors. Each flower fills almost the entire frame of the stamp, with just the top of the stem showing. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamps with existing photographs by Denise Ippolito.

Tulip Blossoms will be issued as Forever stamps in booklets of 20, as well as coils of 3,000 and 10,000.

From the Postal Bulletin:
On April 5, 2023, in Woodburn, OR, the United States Postal Service® will issue the Tulip Blossoms stamps (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate) in 10 designs, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) double-sided booklet of 20 stamps (Item 684200), a PSA coil of 3,000 stamps (Item 751500), and a PSA coil of 10,000 stamps (Item 761700). These stamps will go on sale nationwide April 5, 2023, and must not be sold or canceled before the first-day-of-issue.

Ten different stamps in a booklet of 20, as well as coils of 3,000 and 10,000, feature close-up photographs of beautiful tulip blossoms in a rainbow of colors. Each flower fills almost the entire frame of each stamp, with just the top of the stem showing. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamps with existing photographs by Denise Ippolito.

• Item 684200, Double-sided Booklet of 20 Stamps: No automatic distribution
• Item 751500, Coil of 3,000 Stamps: No automatic distribution
• Item 761700, Coil of 10,000 Stamps: No automatic distribution

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 store.usps.com/store/home. 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: