{"title":"Love Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe sell Love stamps from the yearly USPS Love series, with an issue from every year 2018 through 2026, including Love Flourishes and Made of Hearts. All are one-ounce Forever stamps in sheets of 20, so an older year still covers a standard letter today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"love-flourishes-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"Love Flourishes Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eLove Flourishes was issued in January 2018 in Phoenix and belongs to the Love series, which the Postal Service has been adding to for decades. Anna Bond hand-painted the original in gouache: a garden of stylized roses, peonies and dahlias in pink, coral and yellow, with pale blue-green berries and gold leaves, wrapped around the word Love in cursive. Greg Breeding was the art director. The palette is retro without being fussy, which is why it has aged better than most Valentine's issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeddings are the obvious use - invitations, save-the-dates, RSVP envelopes, the thank-you notes afterwards - and it is what people reach for in early February. It holds up year-round for anniversary cards and any letter where a flag would feel cold. A pane of 20 is roughly one small invitation list. Forever means it covers a one-ounce letter at the current 82¢ rate; a full invitation suite usually weighs more than an ounce, so weigh one before you commit to a sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48301130776886,"sku":"100 LF","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48301901349174,"sku":"300 LF","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48301901381942,"sku":"1000 LF","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/products\/23.loveflourishes.jpg?v=1709957688"},{"product_id":"2019-love-hearts-blossom-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"2019 Love Hearts Blossom Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwelve hearts in red, purple, orange and pink, arranged across the frame with no other imagery. Antonio Alcala designed it for the 2019 entry in the Love series, which the Postal Service has been adding to since the 1970s. The color choices are the whole design: nothing here is arranged into a bouquet or a message, just twelve shapes in a palette picked to read as cheerful rather than romantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat distinction matters when you are choosing a stamp. This one goes on Valentine's mail, but it is loose enough for birthday cards, notes to friends, get-well mail and anything else where you want warmth without implying a proposal. Sheets of 20. The Love series retires each design after its year, so what is in circulation now is what there will ever be. Forever value applies, so a sheet bought when the rate was lower still covers a full one-ounce letter today with nothing to add.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48301130318134,"sku":"100 L","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48301212434742,"sku":"300 L","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48301212467510,"sku":"1000 L","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/products\/8b3569e8-a72b-4e91-bab0-384af8bb6f2f_1.6beb882c2cf933b201cc63b5432a4e82.jpg?v=1709956531"},{"product_id":"2021-love-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"2021 Love Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe word LOVE and three large hearts, drawn as a flat digital illustration and set against a dark blue field. What makes the 2021 stamp unusual in the series is the palette: the hearts are worked in paired colors that are not the ones you would expect together, and the dark background pushes them forward instead of the usual white or pastel ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt reads as contemporary rather than sentimental, which widens where you can use it. Valentine's cards, obviously, but also engagement announcements, anniversary notes, wedding thank-yous and everyday mail that would look wrong with a flag on it. Sheets of 20, and it is one of the few in the series that works as well on a business envelope as on a card. As a Forever stamp it keeps pace with the letter rate, so a sheet bought in 2021 at 55 cents covers a one-ounce letter at today's 82 cents with nothing to make up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48301130711350,"sku":"100 V","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48301245169974,"sku":"300 V","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48301245202742,"sku":"1000 V","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/products\/11.jpg?v=1709956542"},{"product_id":"made-of-hearts-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"Made of Hearts Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eRows of small hearts in red and pink across a white ground. Toward the middle the pink ones give way to red ones in graduated sizes, and the substitution assembles a single large heart out of the smaller ones. Antonio Alcala designed it and art-directed the issue, which came out in 2020. It is a piece of straight graphic design rather than an illustration, and it works because the trick only resolves at a distance - up close it is just rows of hearts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt carries Valentine's mail, which is the obvious use, but the graphic treatment keeps it usable for engagements, anniversaries and wedding correspondence without tipping into greeting-card sentiment. Sheets of 20. The Love series runs a new stamp most years and older ones stop being printed, so this design is not coming back - worth knowing if you like it enough to want more than one sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48301131825462,"sku":"100 R","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48301909082422,"sku":"300 R","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48301909115190,"sku":"1000 R","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/products\/7_5bacab4d-2fac-4cfa-9fbc-221e9fae30d8.jpg?v=1709956618"},{"product_id":"2022-love-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"2022 Love Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo stamps built from the same layout, borrowed from old European folk art: three round stylized blooms across the top, smaller blossoms tucked into the lower corners, one on powder blue and one on coral. Bailey Sullivan illustrated and designed them with Greg Breeding as art director. Folk motifs are a sensible source for a stamp - they were designed to survive being painted small on furniture and chests, which is the same problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo backgrounds in one sheet is practically useful, not just decorative. Couples use the coral for the invitation and the blue for the reply envelope, or split a Valentine's mailing so the same stamp does not go to everyone. Beyond February they carry anniversary cards, wedding correspondence and general mail. Sheets of 20. Folk-art sources also age slowly, which is why this one still looks current several years after it was printed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48301269123382,"sku":"100 22.Love","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48301269156150,"sku":"300 22.Love","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48301269188918,"sku":"1000 22.Love","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/3.2022Love.jpg?v=1709964232"},{"product_id":"2023-usps-love-forever-postage-stamps","title":"2023 Love Forever Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eA kitten and a puppy, one per design, front paws over a large heart, with LOVE in capitals behind each animal. Chris Buzelli painted them in oils on wood panel and the images were scanned and finished digitally; Ethel Kessler art-directed. The oil ground shows in the fur, which is why the animals read as painted rather than as stock illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Postal Service went to pets for the 2023 Love stamp because that is where a lot of the affection in American households actually goes. It suits Valentine's mail and everything adjacent - anniversary cards, notes to family, thank-you cards after someone looked after your animals. Veterinary practices, shelters and rescue organizations use them on client and donor mail, which is the least sentimental and most effective use of the design. Sheets of 20, with both animals in the pane, so you are not forced to choose between the cat and the dog when you buy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48301643989302,"sku":"100 2023Love","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48301644022070,"sku":"300 2023Love","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48301644054838,"sku":"1000 2023Love","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/cccc.jpg?v=1709976332"},{"product_id":"2024-usps-love-forever-postage-stamps","title":"2024 Love Forever Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eA white bird built out of geometric shapes, flying across a deep red field with a pink envelope in its beak, sealed with a red heart. Katie Kirk made the original digital illustration and Antonio Alcala art-directed. The bird-carrying-a-letter image is older than the postal service itself, and rendering it in hard geometry rather than soft feathers is what keeps this from being a greeting card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the 2024 entry in the Love series, and the envelope in the beak makes it one of the few Love stamps that is actually about mail. That gives it a wider range than most: Valentine's cards, wedding and anniversary correspondence, letters to someone far away, and any envelope where the point is that you wrote at all. Sheets of 20. Forever value, so it covers a one-ounce letter at the current rate regardless of what the sheet cost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":48301654278454,"sku":"100 2024Love","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":48301654311222,"sku":"300 2024Love","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":48301654343990,"sku":"1000 2024Love","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/2024.LOVE.jpg?v=1744550011"},{"product_id":"2025-love-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"2025 Love Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 2025 Love stamp uses Keith Haring's Untitled drawing from 1985: a large red heart with thick black lines radiating out from it, and beneath it two of his unnamed figures with their arms raised toward it. Haring worked in subway stations and on street walls before galleries caught up with him, and the drawing carries that - fast, thick, made to be read from across a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe figures have no faces and no detail, which is the reason it works as a Love stamp: nothing tells you who they are or what the relationship is, so the meaning is whatever the sender brings. It goes on Valentine's mail, engagement and anniversary cards, and correspondence from arts organizations and galleries that want something on the envelope other than a flower. Sheets of 20. Haring died in 1990 at 31, and the estate has been careful about licensing since, so seeing the work on something as ordinary as postage is not a small thing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":51815798079798,"sku":"100 25.LOVE","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":51815798112566,"sku":"300 25.LOVE","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":51815798145334,"sku":"1000 25.LOVE","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/25.LOVE.jpg?v=1744860556"},{"product_id":"2026-love-forever-first-class-postage-stamps","title":"2026 Love Forever First Class Postage Stamps","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour scenes rather than one, all built around pairs of stylized birds and hearts that turn up in odd places: couples working along branches strung with hearts, one bird offering a heart-shaped flower, birds pecking at hearts falling like petals, a pair nesting under a heart-shaped moon. Four designs in one issue is unusual for the Love series, which normally runs one or two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe practical effect of four designs is that a single sheet covers a mailing without every envelope looking identical - useful for wedding correspondence, where invitations, reply cards and thank-you notes go out in separate waves. Valentine's mail is the other standing use, and the birds keep it from reading as strictly romantic, so it carries family and friendship cards too. Sheets of 20, Forever value. Worth buying more than one sheet if you like it: the series retires each design after its year, so this one will not be reprinted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mailboxes of Flushing","offers":[{"title":"5 Sheets of 20 (100 Stamps)","offer_id":53875708297526,"sku":"100 26.LOVE","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"15 Sheets of 20 (300 Stamps)","offer_id":53875708330294,"sku":"300 26.LOVE","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sheets of 20 (1000 Stamps)","offer_id":53875708363062,"sku":"1000 26.LOVE","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/6378\/6038\/files\/26.LOVE.jpg?v=1775396054"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.mailboxflushing.com\/collections\/love-stamps.oembed","provider":"Mailboxes of Flushing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}