First Day of Issue: Christmas Cookies
Date:
September 19, 2026 | 11:00 AM
Location: Washington, DC
Sweet, sugar-frosted stamps will be available for holiday greetings this year.
This booklet of 20 Christmas Cookies Forever stamps includes images of four frosted sugar cookies appearing on alternating red and blue backgrounds.
Greg Breeding, art director and designer for USPS; designer Kyrie Johnson; and photographer Sarah Cramer Shields created the booklet from photographs of sugar cookies baked by Johnson.
The Christmas Cookies Forever stamps will be part of a free, public, family-friendly celebration at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Retail sales and first-day-of-issue postmarks will be available.