2022 US Forever First-Class Postage Tulips Stamps (5 Books 100 Stamps)

Here’s an image of the 2022 U.S. Forever First-Class “Tulips” stamp—a vibrant, floral design featuring overlapping tulips in red, orange, yellow, purple, and white against a clean white background.

Key Facts about the 2022 Tulips Forever Stamp

• Issue Date & Location: Released on March 24, 2022, in Mount Vernon, Washington.

• Design & Creation: Designed by art director Ethel Kessler, with digital photography by Harold Davis. Davis photographed a wide, backlit arrangement of tulips on a lightbox, captured in three overlapping frames (each exposed six times with varying exposure values), then digitally merged into one luminous image.

• Denomination: A Forever® Stamp, always valid for 1-ounce First-Class Mail, regardless of future rate changes.

• Why Issued: Designed to serve as an elegant postal choice for RSVP envelopes, especially for weddings, as well as party invitations, thank-you notes, and special announcements.

• Stamp Specs:

  • Printed by the Banknote Corporation of America using offset printing with microprint.

  • Issued in panes of 20 pressure-sensitive adhesive stamps (Item 580200).

  • A total of approximately 200 million stamps were produced. Design Parallels: Shares thematic and stylistic similarities with the Sunflower Bouquet 2-ounce stamp, also issued in 2022.