A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA

This is wonderful!!! I have been Postcrossing for years and it's so much fun to get a postcard randomly out of the blue from someone. Regrettably the cost to send a postcard international from the USA is over $1 now, and the cost of a postcard means you might be spending around $2 per card, but it's so worth it.

> What is Postcrossing?

> It's a project that allows you to send postcards and receive postcards back from random people around the world.

I just learned about Postcrossing from a small bookshop owner in Iceland! I was buying some postage to send some postcards back to family in the US. We talked about how fun the format is (and challenging! You don’t have a lot of room!).

Thank you for posting this. I've somehow never heard of Postcrossing, but I've now signed up and will have a couple cards put in a mailbox this afternoon. I am so so excited to actually receive mail. I've sent close to 150 postcards over the last 12 months to various people I know IRL, and not a single person has responded in kind. The only mail I get is from a penpal in Finland I met on Lemmy (which is always a treat to receive!)

I'll just so happen to be at the world stamp expo, so I'll be sure to try and check out the postcrossing meetups, and pick up some of these stamps hot off the press!

The triangle design is pretty cool; I can't recall ever seeing one like that in the wild, but it looks like it's been a possibility since '97.

I wonder why the word Forever is struck out in the design. No mention about the design itself, just that it will be available and a triangle.

Legitimately cool. I've never seen a triangular stamp before! NASA and USPS really the best US agencies

My girlfriend loves Postcrossing, she recently discovered it and we already have cards from all over the world hanging on our fridge.

In the UK it's £3.60, which is nearly $5!

Well, if you buy N of these global forever stamps, the cost will just get cheaper over time (inflation).

Since the non-postcrossing Global Forevers are circular and a bit annoying, I use 2 Forever stamps plus a 20¢ stamp (6¢ wasted - i suppose i could switch to 15¢ stamps...).

In the UK it's £3.60, which is nearly $5!

Wowww ok, mea culpa maxima, I should not feel so bad. I would send domestically but the international cards are so much more interesting to me.

I'll just so happen to be at the world stamp expo, so I'll be sure to try and check out the postcrossing meetups, and pick up some of these stamps hot off the press!

My girlfriend loves Postcrossing, she recently discovered it and we already have cards from all over the world hanging on our fridge.

> What is Postcrossing?

> It's a project that allows you to send postcards and receive postcards back from random people around the world.

> 423,755 postcards traveling

To point out why USPS took note of them, there are unofficial Postcrossing tracking IDs recording nearly half a million postcards actively in transit from sender to receiver as of when I pulled that from their website a couple minutes ago.

The triangle design is pretty cool; I can't recall ever seeing one like that in the wild, but it looks like it's been a possibility since '97.

Legitimately cool. I've never seen a triangular stamp before! NASA and USPS really the best US agencies

I received a round Global Forever 2018 stamp, which I found pretty cool. But the most extraordinary stamp I received, was from Belarus. It had a strawberry smell.

I wonder why the word Forever is struck out in the design. No mention about the design itself, just that it will be available and a triangle.

Post office gets grumpy if you post images that could allow for duplication:

18 U.S.C. § 501. If you post high-resolution, printable images of valid stamps, especially unused ones, and they can be reproduced, prosecutors could argue you’re facilitating counterfeiting.

I think it's so you can't print and try to use the image as actual postage.

Wowww ok, mea culpa maxima, I should not feel so bad. I would send domestically but the international cards are so much more interesting to me.

The cost varies a lot by country, yeah. It can be more expensive like the UK or cheaper like in Japan ($0.65).

Well, if you buy N of these global forever stamps, the cost will just get cheaper over time (inflation).

Since the non-postcrossing Global Forevers are circular and a bit annoying, I use 2 Forever stamps plus a 20¢ stamp (6¢ wasted - i suppose i could switch to 15¢ stamps...).

> 423,755 postcards traveling

I received a round Global Forever 2018 stamp, which I found pretty cool. But the most extraordinary stamp I received, was from Belarus. It had a strawberry smell.

Post office gets grumpy if you post images that could allow for duplication:

18 U.S.C. § 501. If you post high-resolution, printable images of valid stamps, especially unused ones, and they can be reproduced, prosecutors could argue you’re facilitating counterfeiting.

I think it's so you can't print and try to use the image as actual postage.

The cost varies a lot by country, yeah. It can be more expensive like the UK or cheaper like in Japan ($0.65).

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31 Mar, 2026

HURRAAAAAAAAAY!!! We’ve been waiting a looooong time to share this news: the United States Postal Service is issuing some shiny new Postcrossing stamps! Woohoo!

It’s been a long road to get here: many of you have written to the USPS Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee over the years to ask for a Postcrossing stamp, and we’ve also been working with USPS behind the scenes for quite a while to make this happen. It’s finally happening, and what a huge honor it is for the community. A proper celebration of the joy, generosity, and curiosity that postcrossers put into the world every day.

Sheet of four colourful triangular “GLOBAL/POSTCROSSING/FOREVER” USA stamps forming a square shape, with playful scenes (astronaut, cyclist, diver, and cowboy on horseback).

Anyway, let’s talk about the stamps themselves… because: TRIANGLES! 😍

The new Postcrossing stamps are triangular, which is a pretty rare format for USPS. And yes — that means you can place one right on the corner of a postcard for an especially cool look. Since there are four different stamps to choose from, you won’t always be sending (or receiving) the same ones. These are global forever stamps, which means they are the international postcard (or letter) rate, and you need one single stamp to send a postcard abroad.

Visually, they’re a lot of fun: bold colors and playful scenes with lots of tiny details. They were designed by Antonio Alcalá and illustrated by Jackson Gibbs, and the result is energetic, bright, and unmistakably Postcrossing.

Mock-up of four postcards, each with a colourful triangular Global Postcrossing Forever stamp placed on a corner.

The launch day is May 26, 2026, and there will be a commemorative ceremony at the the Boston 2026 World Expo — and everyone’s invited! Even better: there will be Postcrossing meetups every day of the show (which is free!), so bring postcards, say hi, and let’s celebrate together. No worries if you can’t make it to Boston — like any other USPS stamps, these will be available online and at post offices around the country.

We’ll share more details (including meetup info and other products that will be available along with the stamps) as we get closer to the date. But for now, we’re just going to sit here grinning at these gorgeous triangles for a while.

USA postcrossers: are you ready? And everyone else: who’s hoping to receive one of these on a postcard very soon?

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