Year of the Tiger Stamps Celebrates Lunar New Year Forever First Class Postage Stamps

The tiger appears as a decorated mask, not as an animal - part of the Lunar New Year series in which each zodiac sign is built as a three-dimensional mask and photographed. The face is patterned with motifs taken from Asian textiles, and the selvage carries line drawings of all twelve animals with the tiger marked. Sheets of 20.

Lunar New Year mail moves in a narrow window. Red envelopes, cards and invitations all go out in the two or three weeks before the date, which shifts each year between late January and mid-February, so buyers order in quantity rather than a book at a time. The Postal Service has issued Lunar New Year stamps for more than three decades and they remain among its best-selling releases. Tiger years run on the twelve-year cycle, so the next one after 2022 falls in 2034. Forever value means the leftovers carry ordinary letters the rest of the year.