{"title":"Cartoon \u0026 Character Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe sell cartoon and character stamps featuring SpongeBob, Peanuts, Scooby-Doo!, Buzz Lightyear, Star Wars droids, Rudolph and the Message Monsters. Each is a genuine, unused Forever stamp that covers a one-ounce letter at the current price. Check the format before you order: SpongeBob comes in panes of 16 and Scooby-Doo! in sheets of 12.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"usps-first-class-forever-stamp-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer","title":"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer First Class Forever Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eReindeer only entered the Santa story in 1823, with the publication of A Visit From St. Nicholas. Rudolph arrived more than a century later, in a 1939 promotional booklet written by Robert L. May for Montgomery Ward, and became fixed in the culture with the 1964 stop-motion television special that has aired every year since. This set draws on that special rather than on the song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich makes it a stamp that a particular set of adults recognizes instantly and a particular set of children recognizes not at all - worth knowing when you pick the envelope. It goes on Christmas cards to family, to grandparents, to anyone who watched it on network television in December. Booklets of 20. Forever value means the ones left over on 26 December mail ordinary letters at the current rate rather than going in the bin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Booklets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48303164195126,"sku":"100 2014 Santa","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Booklets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48303164227894,"sku":"300 2014 Santa","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Booklets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48303164260662,"sku":"1000 2014 Santa","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/1-1-1.png?v=1710047044"},{"product_id":"go-beyond-your-typical-with-buzz-lightyear-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"Go Beyond Buzz Lightyear Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuzz Lightyear on a pane of 20, arranged in four rows of five, from a Postal Service issue done with Disney and Pixar. Greg Breeding art-directed it using illustrations supplied by Pixar Animation Studios. Buzz has been a Space Ranger convinced he is not a toy since 1995, marooned in the fiction of the films on a planet millions of light-years from Earth, and the stamp plays it straight - full color, full pose, no irony added.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese move fastest in two situations: a child's birthday party invitation list, and the box of thank-you notes that follows it. Space-themed parties, classroom mail, care packages to a kid at camp - anything where the envelope has to do some work before it is opened. Adults who grew up with the films buy them for themselves and use them on ordinary mail, which is most of the rest of the demand. A sheet of 20 is about one party, counting invitations and the thank-you notes afterwards.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48303291924790,"sku":"100 Go Beyond","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48303291957558,"sku":"300 Go Beyond","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48303291990326,"sku":"1000 Go Beyond","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/Gobeyond.jpg?v=1710058817"},{"product_id":"usps-star-wars-droids-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"Star Wars Droids Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eDroids have been in Star Wars since the opening minutes of the first film, and this issue treats them as characters rather than props - loyal companions, protocol officers, sidekicks who get more screen time than most of the humans. The set puts them on stamps at full size, which is more flattering to a droid than to a face; the shapes are graphic to begin with, so they survive being reduced to an inch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese sell to two groups: collectors who buy the pane and keep it sealed, and parents stamping birthday invitations. In between there are plenty of adults using them on ordinary post. Sheets of 20. As Forever stamps they keep pace with the letter rate, which means a sheet bought several rate increases ago still covers a full one-ounce letter today - a reasonable argument for buying the whole sheet rather than a strip.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48303270756662,"sku":"100 SD","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48303270789430,"sku":"300 SD","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48303270822198,"sku":"1000 SD","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/SD111.jpg?v=1710057169"},{"product_id":"message-monsters-usps-forever-postage-stamps-ready-to-bring-a-smile-to-your-mail","title":"Message Monsters Forever Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour monsters on a pane of 20, drawn by Elise Gravel, who writes and illustrates children's books, with Antonio Alcalá as art director. What makes this issue unusual is the selvage: the border around the stamps is loaded with self-adhesive accessories - speech balloons and thought bubbles carrying greetings, hats, crowns, hearts, stars, lopsided daisies - meant to be peeled off and stuck around the stamp on the envelope. It is the only recent U.S. issue designed to be assembled rather than just applied.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo this is a stamp for mail going to a child, or from one. Birthday cards, letters to grandchildren, postcards from camp, the notes teachers send home. The accessories mean a seven-year-old can decorate the envelope without being handed scissors and glue, which is the practical appeal for parents. Nothing about the design is seasonal, so a pane keeps its use year-round. Keep the selvage intact until you use them - that is where the accessories live, and once it is torn off they are gone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48301940703542,"sku":"100 MM","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48301940736310,"sku":"300 MM","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48301940769078,"sku":"1000 MM","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"test","offer_id":53275903623478,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/MM111.jpg?v=1709995801"},{"product_id":"cartoonist-charles-schulz-peanuts-forever-postage-stamps","title":"Cartoonist Charles Schulz \"Peanuts\" Forever Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eIssued for the centennial of Charles M. Schulz's birth, this set puts Peanuts back on U.S. mail - not for the first time. Snoopy appeared as the World War I Flying Ace in 2001, and in 2015 the Postal Service marked fifty years of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Schulz drew the strip himself, every panel, for fifty years, which is part of why the line still reads as one hand rather than a studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeanuts occupies odd territory: written for adults, read by children, and understood differently by each. That makes these unusually flexible on an envelope - birthday cards, letters to grandchildren, sympathy notes where something gentle is needed, office mail that would otherwise be a flag. They sell hardest in November and December because of the Christmas special, but nothing on the stamps is seasonal. Sheets of 20, and they move fastest in December even though nothing printed on them is seasonal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48302472102198,"sku":"100 Schulz","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48302472134966,"sku":"300 Schulz","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48302472167734,"sku":"1000 Schulz","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/Schulz11111.webp?v=1710016152"},{"product_id":"a-charlie-brown-christmas-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"A Charlie Brown Christmas Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen stills from the 1965 television special, issued in 2015 for its fiftieth anniversary, two of each design in a booklet of 20. Charlie Brown holding the sapling. Linus kneeling by the bare tree. Snoopy and the children skating. Charlie Brown checking an empty mailbox for a card - which is, for a postage stamp, a well-chosen frame. Antonio Alcala art-directed the set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe special has aired every year since it was made, so this is a stamp that most households recognize instantly and read as their own childhood rather than as a licensed property. It goes on Christmas cards, and specifically on the cards going to people roughly your own age. Booklets of 20 - most families sending cards buy several. Anything left in January keeps its full value as a Forever stamp, which is not true of the dated holiday issues people used to discard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Booklets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48301656310070,"sku":"100 Brown","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Booklets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48301656342838,"sku":"300 Brown","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Booklets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48301656375606,"sku":"1000 Brown","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/BrownMain.jpg?v=1709977877"},{"product_id":"usps-scooby-doo-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"Scooby-Doo! 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The Doo Good tie-in dates the sheet; the dog does not, which is why these still move.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"8 Sheets of 12 (96 Stamps)","offer_id":48303260959030,"sku":"96 DOO","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"25 Sheets of 12 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48303260991798,"sku":"300 DOO","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"80 Sheets of 12 (960 Stamps)","offer_id":48303261024566,"sku":"960 DOO","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/DOO.jpg?v=1710055966"},{"product_id":"spongebob-squarepants-forever-stamps","title":"SpongeBob Squarepants Forever Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour designs from the Nickelodeon series, issued in August 2025: two close-ups of SpongeBob's grin, one of him with Patrick Star, and one ensemble shot with Patrick, Sandy Cheeks, Plankton, Mr. Krabs, Gary and Squidward. Greg Breeding art-directed using artwork supplied by Nickelodeon. The show has been running since 1999, which means the adults buying these mostly watched it themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote the format before you order: these come in panes of 16, not the usual 20, so the arithmetic against a party list is different. They go on children's birthday invitations and thank-you notes, letters to grandchildren, care packages, and classroom mail. Plenty of adults use them on ordinary correspondence without apology, and the ensemble design is the one to save for anyone with a favorite who is not SpongeBob. Forever value applies, so each one covers a one-ounce letter at the current 82¢ rate whenever you get round to using it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"USPS","offers":[{"title":"6 Sheets of 16 (96 Stamps)","offer_id":52980807303478,"sku":"96 SpongeBob","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18 Sheets of 16 (288 Stamps)","offer_id":52980807336246,"sku":"288 SpongeBob","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"60 Sheets of 16 (960 Stamps)","offer_id":52980807369014,"sku":"960 SpongeBob","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/Spongebob.jpg?v=1758245798"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.mailboxflushing.com\/collections\/cartoon-character-stamps.oembed","provider":"Mailboxes of Flushing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}