WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service reissued the 2018 Mister Rogers stamp on June 1 after it won the USPS Stamp Encore contest. The reissued stamp and a new four-image Mister Rogers souvenir sheet became available at post offices nationwide and online at The Postal Store.
More than half a million public votes were cast over 10 weeks in the USPS Stamp Encore contest, which featured 25 stamp panes selected from some of the Postal Service’s bestselling and most popular designs in recent years. The Mister Rogers stamp received 40,000 more votes than the next-highest contender. The winner was revealed on Sunday at the Boston 2026 World Expo, where the stamps had been exclusively available through May 30.
The original 2018 print run of the Mister Rogers stamp totaled 12 million stamps and sold out within weeks of its release. The reissued version is being offered as Forever stamps in a pane of 20, and the souvenir sheet as Forever stamps in a pane of four.
“Fred Rogers often shared the idea that ‘You are not just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been,’” said Isaac Cronkhite, chief processing and distribution officer and executive vice president of the U.S. Postal Service. “In this context, I believe the Mister Rogers stamp resonated with the child in each of us — and the children and former children who cast so many votes.”
Emma Lee, Director of the Fred Rogers Institute, added, “Fred Rogers considered the space between the television set and a viewer to be ‘holy ground.’ The mail children sent to Mister Rogers, and his letters back, became an essential extension of that sacred connection. Reissuing this stamp beautifully honors the enduring ties he built with his television friends.”