Only 14 issues have been announced, many of them “mail-use” or “definitive” stamps. Undoubtedly, more issues will be announced.
What do you think will be in the program? What do you think should be in the program for 
2025?
We’ll start: 2025 will be the 250th anniversary (“semiquincentennial” if you want to be fancy) of the Battle of Lexington & Concord, of the Second Continental Congress, and other American Revolution milestones. It will also be the centennial of a Great American Novel, The Great Gatsby. The radio program Grand Ole Opry went on the air in 1925, too.
American entertainers born that year include Gwen Verdon, Paul Newman, Elaine Stritch, Jack Lemmon, Kim Stanley, Hal Holbrook, George Kennedy, Rod Steiger, Tony Curtis, Maureen Stepleton, June Lockhart, Merv Griffin, Donald O’Connor, Mel Torme, B.B. King, Lenny Bruce, Angela Lansbury, Johnny Carson, Rock Hudson, Jonathan Winters, and Sammy Davis Jr. (Me, I’d put my money on Davis and — if they can figure out which wife has the rights — Carson.) Dick Van Dyke will turn 100 in 2025 but he’s still with us.
Remember that the U.S. Postal Service doesn’t like to commemorate disasters and other unpleasantness, so a stamp for the massive 1925 Ku Klux Klan rally in Washington is unlikely.
We used Wikipedia’s pages for 1925 and there are similar pages for toher years. The oft-ignored guidelines say anniversary increments of 50 years, not 25 or 75, and no corporations or organizations, which could seem to eliminate the Chrysler Corporation.
So what do you think?
June Lockhart is still alive, too
Paul Newman had a stamp so unlikely. They’ve talked about a Johnny Carson stamp for years so maybe now is the time.
Also overdue for John Glenn and Neil Armstrong.
You won’t see stamps for John Glenn or Neil Armstrong until the rights holders (as specified in their wills) to their names/images/likenesses permit the USPS to use them on stamps without paying licensing. In the case of John Glenn, it is The Ohio State University. In the case of Neil Armstong, Purdue University.
I don’t suspect any entertainment related stamps…they cost too much to get the rights! I was shocked by Betty White. Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan don’t get stamps?
The USPS says it never pays for the rights to issue a stamp. Of course, it may pay for the rights for other “philatelic collectibles,” but that’s not the same thing, is it? 😎
Hmm. That maybe explains why we no longer get US Olympic stamps.
No, the USPS does NOT pay for rights for other philatelic collecticbles.
Coffee mugs? Stickers? T-shirts? Heck, the USPS couldn’t even include Jimi Hendrix in its Stamp Yearbook.
I’d like to see the USPS get into the stamp collection commemoration tradition of issuing one stamp-on-stamp or related item a year.
Something from the Girls of Hawaii calendar? https://abcstores.com/2025-calendar-girls-of-hawaii/
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
50th Anniversary of Springsteen’s Born to
Run
Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeSoto and Aldo Leopold. 3 great literarists and noted conservationists. Long….long overdue!
Bernard Devoto!