United Nations announces its 2025 stamp program

By David Hartwig

On Nov. 5, the United Nations Postal Administration announced its 2025 stamp program in its bulletin for collectors, Fascination.

The program will begin Jan. 17 with a pane of 10 stamps celebrating the Year of the Snake. The $1.65 stamps, for use at the post office at U.N. headquarters in New York City, mark the 15th issue in the UNPA’s Chinese Lunar Calendar series.

On March 8, International Women’s Day, the UNPA will issue six stamps commemorating U.N. Women: 73¢ and $1.65 for use from the post office at U.N. headquarters; 1-franc and 2.50fr for the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland; and €0.95 and €1.90 for the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria. The stamps will be in six panes of 10 stamps each.

The 2025 program will continue April 6 with the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace issue, which will include six sheets of six stamps denominated 73¢, $1.65, 1.20fr, 1.90fr, €0.95 and €1.20. Three souvenir sheets will be denominated $1.65, 2.50fr and €2.50.

The UNPA will issue a pane of three stamps April 13 denominated $1.65, 2.50fr and €1.90 for the World Expo 2025 to be held in Osaka, Kansai, Japan, beginning April 13, 2025, and ending six months later on Oct. 13.

On May 2, the UNPA will issue stamps in its Endangered Species series. This long-running series began in 1993. The stamps will be in three panes of 16 with four designs per pane.

The Endangered Species set will include $1.65 stamps for use at the post office at U.N. headquarters, 1.90fr stamps for the Palais des Nations, and €1.50 stamps for the Vienna International Center.

Following the first two issues in 2020 and 2022, a third set of three crypto souvenir sheets of one stamp each are to be issued June 6. Crypto refers to cryptocurrency, a form of currency that only exists digitally. The denominations for these sheets are to be determined.

The UNPA gives the title “No Nukes” to an Aug. 6 issue of six panes of 10 stamps. Aug. 6, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.

The stamps will be denominated 73¢ and $1.65 for use from the post office at U.N. headquarters, 1.20fr and 1.90fr for the Palais des Nations, and €1.20 and €1.40 for the Vienna International Center.

On Sept. 21, the UNPA will issue three souvenir sheets of one stamp each for the International Day of Peace. According to Fascination, the stamps will bear the higher denominations of $6, 6fr and €5.

The United Nations will celebrate its 80th anniversary Oct. 24 with three sheets each containing four stamps with denominations of $1.65, 2.50fr and €2.10, respectively.

The UNPA will continue its World Heritage series Nov. 24 with 73¢, $1.65, 1.20fr, 1.90fr, €0.95 and €1.20 stamps in panes of 20, as well as related prestige booklets with text and illustrations in addition to stamps.

The 2025 U.N. program is tentative and subject to change.

For more information on U.N. stamps, visit the UNPA online.

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