Sunflower Bouquet Two Ounce Forever First Class Postage Stamps

Five sunflowers arranged as a bouquet, filling the frame, yellow against a light ground. There is nothing conceptual going on here - it is a straightforward, cheerful stamp, and the reason to know about it is not the picture but the denomination printed on it.

This is a two-ounce stamp. It is always worth what a two-ounce first-class letter costs, currently $1.11, and it exists for the mail that people habitually underpay: heavy invitations for birthdays, weddings and anniversaries, oversize greeting cards, and small flat gifts in a padded envelope. A card that feels normal in the hand crosses an ounce more often than you would think, and the result is either a returned envelope or a postage-due note at the other end. Two Forever stamps would cover the weight, but at $1.64 they cost more and take up both corners. Sheets of 20 for anyone working through an invitation list, and sunflowers carry a summer or autumn wedding better than roses do.