Sports legends and mythical creatures? See the U.S. Postal Service 2027 Subject Stamps

Trending news Sports legends and mythical creatures? See the U.S. Postal Service 2027 Subject Stamps You’ll soon see sports legends, mythical creatures, vegetables and more on the stamps on your mail. By Mike Gavin • Published November 9, 2026 • Updated on November 9, 2026 at 7:27 pm You’ll soon see sports legends, mythical creatures, vegetables and more on the stamps on your mail. The U.S. Postal Service on Monday announced its 2027 Stamp Subjects, and they include everything from icons to unicorns. Stream Philadelphia News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC10. WATCH HERE The sports legends set to be celebrated in stamp form include Pat Summitt, one of the winningest coaches in women’s college basketball, and Willie Mays, a baseball icon and Hall of Famer. Summitt coached at the University of Tennessee for 38 years, winning over 1,000 games and eight national championships. Her stamp features her portrait in oil-on-primed-linen created by Roberto Parada and designed by USPS art director Ethel Kessler. U.S. Postal Service U.S. Postal Service Mays, who played primarily for the New York and San Francisco Giants during his 23-year playing career, is being honored with the 50 th stamp in the USPS Black Heritage series. It features a portrait of Mays wearing a New York Giants hat and his iconic over-the-shoulder catch from the 1954 World Series. The stamp was designed by USPS art director Antonio Alcalá using photographs from Getty Images. U.S. Postal Service U.S. Postal Service Other stamps set for release in 2027 include unicorns, vegetables, mythical creatures and others. Here’s a look at some of the preliminary designs with descriptions from the USPS . U.S. & World Stories that affect your life across the U.S. and around the world. Celebrity News 6 hours ago Jake Reiner touches on trauma, grief and what he misses about late parents Rob and Michelle Lawsuits 10 hours ago Jordon Hudson sues Airbnb hosts over doorbell camera video of shirtless Belichick Lunar New Year — Year of the Goat In 2027, the U.S. Postal Service marks the Year of the Goat with the eighth stamp in its third Lunar New Year series, which began in 2020. Traditionally associated with new beginnings and the coming of spring, Lunar New Year is one of the world’s most widely celebrated holidays. For this series, artist Camille Chew created cut-paper masks representing the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp using Sally Andersen-Bruce’s photograph of the Year of the Goat mask. U.S. Postal Service U.S. Postal Service Love (2027) Whether it’s a colorful rainbow or a warm, sunny day or a playful pinwheel spinning in the breeze, this year’s Love stamp is a reminder of the many gifts that hold important places in our hearts. Influenced by the pared-down color palettes and symbolism of folk art, artist and stamp designer Lisa Congdon organized the stamp design on a grid with simple and bright colors using geometric shapes and other symbols that evoke joy. Greg Breeding provided art direction for the stamp. U.S. Postal Service U.S. Postal Service Unicorns Featuring dreamlike scenes that suggest a gentle forest of enchantment and peace, these stamps feature unicorns, the legendary creatures that hold the promise of magic to those who have the rare good fortune to encounter them. This pane of 16 stamps features four scenes of unicorns by Kendra Binney, whose mixed-media artwork employs watercolor, acrylic, pencil and digital effects. Derry Noyes, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps. U.S. Postal Service U.S. Postal Service Veggies Forever This booklet of 20 stamps features 10 different close-up color photographs of artfully styled vegetables — a red onion, Savoy cabbage, red cabbage, purple cauliflower, beech mushrooms, purple asparagus, an artichoke, a fairy tale eggplant, rhubarb and a watermelon radish. Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps with existing photographs by award-winning food photographer Renée Comet. U.S. Postal Service U.S. Postal Service Mythical Creatures America’s many folkloric animals reflect our love of the unknown and odd. The Postal Service’s Mythical Creatures set features five different stamps depicting some regional favorites. At festivals in Mothman ’s native West Virginia, attendees often wear “spooky-cute” costumes to evoke this cryptid — a flying, red-eyed, human-size being first reported in 1966. The Jackalope leapt into Western legend after taxidermist brothers in Wyoming created the antlered rabbit mashup in the 1930s. In old Pennsylvania lumbermen’s lore, the self-conscious Squonk wept constantly; today it’s a beloved symbol of anxiety. Sasquatch , aka Bigfoot, leaves an outsized impression on the culture — elusive but everywhere, even beyond its Pacific Northwest habitat. Champ , a lake monster of centuries-old legend, has become the mascot for the Lake Champlain region of New York and Vermont. Artist Nat Power digitally drew the creatures and icons representing their environments in bold black linework and vivid colors reminiscent of her tattoo-design work. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps. U.S. Postal Service U.S. Postal Service Halloween On Halloween, when the night comes alive and the frightening feels fun, children — and the kid in everyone — seek out eerie sights and sounds, come up with scary costumes and revel in pretending to be who they’re not. These new stamps bring us back to the delightful frights of a childhood Halloween with fun, friendly depictions of a vampire, a witch, a mummy and Frankenstein’s monster by Erick Martinez. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps. U.S. Postal Service U.S. Postal Service Cure Childhood Cancers (Semipostal) While childhood cancer is rare, about 15,000 American children and adolescents receive cancer diagnoses annually, and it is the leading cause of disease-related death for children post-infancy. With this semipostal, the U.S. Postal Service supports biomedical research aimed at improving survival for children and adolescents with cancer and developing safer, less toxic treatments that reduce short- and long-term side effects. Net proceeds from the surcharge on the Cure Childhood Cancers semipostal will be donated to the National Institutes of Health for childhood cancer research. Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp with original artwork by Chuck Styles. U.S. Postal Service U.S. Postal Service This article tagged under: Trending news