2026 First-Class Foever Stamp,Internation Peace

2026 International Peace

• Features an origami crane, a symbol of world peace
• Issued during the Boston 2026 World Exposition

Stamp Category: Commemorative
Value: 78¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: May 27, 2026
First Day City: Boston, Massachusetts
Quantity Issued: 22,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU)
Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
Format: Pane of 20

Why the stamp was issued: The stamp celebrates the goal of world peace.

About the stamp design: A white origami crane is featured on the stamp. The crane was folded by Sue DiCicco, the founder of the Peace Crane Project, then photographed by Sally Andersen-Bruce.

First Day City: The International Peace stamp was issued during the Boston 2026 World Exposition stamp show.

History the stamp represents: On August 6, 1945, a two-year-old girl named Sadako Sasaki was at home in Hiroshima, Japan, approximately one mile from ground zero when the United States dropped the atomic bomb. She survived. Ten years later, she was diagnosed with leukemia and hospitalized at age twelve. A friend visited and told her of a Japanese legend: fold 1,000 origami cranes, and the crane’s mythical power would grant you one wish.
Sadako began folding. She folded cranes from scraps of paper, from medicine wrappers, from anything she could find. She exceeded 1,000 and kept going. She died on October 25, 1955, having folded more than 1,300 cranes. Her wish was not for revenge. It was for peace.
After her death, Sadako’s family donated her original cranes to a handful of sites around the world. Among them: the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor and the September 11 Memorial in New York City. At the places that knew something about the cost of war, a Japanese family placed the paper birds their daughter folded while she was dying.
In Japanese, the inscription at the base of Sadako’s statue in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park reads simply: This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.