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USPS Announces Ceremony for Lunar New Year Stamp 2026

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01/16/2026 by

What:

The U.S. Postal Service celebrates the Lunar New Year with the release of the
Year of the Horse stamp. The Year of the Horse begins Feb. 17, 2026, and ends
Feb. 5, 2027.

 

The first-day-of-issue event for the Forever stamp will be in Houston and
is free and open to the public. News of the stamp is being shared with the hashtags
#LunarNewYearHorse and #LunarNewYearStamp.

 

Customers can preorder Lunar New Year: Year of the Horse stamps on usps.com
and they will be shipped on Feb. 3, 2026.
   

Who:

David Steiner, postmaster general and chief executive officer of the U.S. Postal
Service, will be the dedicating official

 

Gary Poon, chief executive officer, Chinese Community Center

 

Luis M. Chen, chef and content creator
   

When:

Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 11 a.m. Central 
   

Where:

Chinese Community Center

9800 Town Park Drive

Houston, TX 77036
   

RSVP:

Attendees are encouraged to register at usps.com/lunarnewyearhorse.
   

 Background: 

Lunar New Year — also referred to as the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival —
is one of the most widely celebrated cultural holidays in the world.

 

Parades, fireworks and festivals mark the holiday in Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean
and other East and Southeast Asian communities across America.

 

In 2020, the Postal Service introduced its third — and current — Lunar New Year
stamp series. This is the seventh Forever stamp in that series, which will continue
through 2031 with stamps for the Year of the Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Boar.

 

Two previous award-winning Lunar New Year series ran from 1992-2004 and from
2008-2019 and showcased the art of Clarence Lee and Kam Mak, respectively.

 

The Year of the Horse stamp features a colorful three-dimensional mask depicting a
frontal view of the face of a horse. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS,
designed the stamp with original art by Camille Chew. Calling to mind the
elaborately decorated masks used in the dragon or lion dances often performed
during Lunar New Year parades, Chew's designs are a contemporary take on the
long tradition of paper-cut folk-art crafts created during this auspicious time of year.

 

Chew constructed the mask out of hand-printed paper, then cut, scored and folded
it into shape. She then embellished the mask with acrylic paint and other paper
elements, such as flowers and tassels, and covered the back of the mask in a layer
of papier-mâché. The mask was then photographed on a white background for this
series.

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