Poinsettia on new USPS holiday postage label

By Linn’s Staff

The United States Postal Service will feature an image of a poinsettia on its computer-vended postage label for the Christmas holiday season.

Preliminary artwork seen by Linn’s Stamp News shows an image from one of the four Holiday Joy forever stamps issued Sept. 14 in a double-sided pane of 20.

In the artwork for the postage label, the image of the poinsettia is rotated 90 degrees.

The postage labels are dispensed at self-service kiosks installed in many post offices across the country. Post offices tend to load the preprinted holiday postage labels at different times, and this year they will be available starting in mid-November.

The U.S. Postal Service created its first full-color holiday-themed computer-vended postage labels in 2012. With the exception of 2019, the labels have been issued annually sometime between mid-October and mid-

Collectors interested in obtaining the new postage label can look online for a post office location that has a self-service kiosk. Visit https://tools.usps.com/find-location.htm and under “Location Types,” click the down arrow and select “Self-Service Kiosks” from the drop-down menu.

Then enter a city and state (or ZIP code), select a distance radius for your search and click on the search button.

The postage labels vended by the kiosks are listed as computer-vended postage stamps in the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers.

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