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2026 First-Class Forever Stamp, Barbie
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US #6115
2026 Barbie
- Features Barbies in 10 career outfits
- Pictures the doll through the decades since its release
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Barbie
Value: 78¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: July 11, 2026
First Day City: Austin, Texas
Quantity Issued: 30,000,000 stamps
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset, Flexographic
Format: Pane of 10
Why the stamp was issued: The stamps were issued to show ten of the more than 250 careers Barbie has represented since the doll was introduced in 1959.
About the stamp design: USPS art director Ethel Kessler worked with Mattel, the manufacturer of Barbie to create the stamps. Photos of the doll dressed in ten different career outfits were used for the stamps.
Special design details: A special format was used to showcase Barbie’s outfits. The stamps are a third taller than most commemoratives.
First Day City: The Barbie stamps were issued during the National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention in Austin Texas.
History the stamp represents: Ruth Handler got the idea for Barbie watching her daughter Barbara play with paper cutouts of adult women. Baby dolls were what the toy market offered girls in the 1950s - nothing that let them imagine a future. Handler set out to change that.
Mattel introduced Barbie at the 1959 American International Toy Fair. Toy buyers were skeptical. The doll’s first television commercial aired that same year on the Mickey Mouse Club, and girls responded immediately. The original Barbie sold for $3. By the end of the year, 350,000 had been sold. More than a billion have been sold since.
Barbie was the first US mass-produced doll with adult features. Her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. She has represented more than 250 professions, run for president, traveled to space, and shown up to work in virtually every field imaginable.
Barbie has evolved alongside the culture she reflects. In 2016, Mattel introduced Barbie in four body types - original, tall, petite, and curvy -along with seven skin tones, 22 eye colors, and 24 hairstyles. Dolls with wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs followed.
Barbie has had her own video games, animated films, and television series. The 2023 live-action Barbie film grossed $1.44 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman. The 2026 Barbie stamps tell the story of a doll that has spent decades showing girls what a future can look like.
US #6115
2026 Barbie
- Features Barbies in 10 career outfits
- Pictures the doll through the decades since its release
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Barbie
Value: 78¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: July 11, 2026
First Day City: Austin, Texas
Quantity Issued: 30,000,000 stamps
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset, Flexographic
Format: Pane of 10
Why the stamp was issued: The stamps were issued to show ten of the more than 250 careers Barbie has represented since the doll was introduced in 1959.
About the stamp design: USPS art director Ethel Kessler worked with Mattel, the manufacturer of Barbie to create the stamps. Photos of the doll dressed in ten different career outfits were used for the stamps.
Special design details: A special format was used to showcase Barbie’s outfits. The stamps are a third taller than most commemoratives.
First Day City: The Barbie stamps were issued during the National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention in Austin Texas.
History the stamp represents: Ruth Handler got the idea for Barbie watching her daughter Barbara play with paper cutouts of adult women. Baby dolls were what the toy market offered girls in the 1950s - nothing that let them imagine a future. Handler set out to change that.
Mattel introduced Barbie at the 1959 American International Toy Fair. Toy buyers were skeptical. The doll’s first television commercial aired that same year on the Mickey Mouse Club, and girls responded immediately. The original Barbie sold for $3. By the end of the year, 350,000 had been sold. More than a billion have been sold since.
Barbie was the first US mass-produced doll with adult features. Her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. She has represented more than 250 professions, run for president, traveled to space, and shown up to work in virtually every field imaginable.
Barbie has evolved alongside the culture she reflects. In 2016, Mattel introduced Barbie in four body types - original, tall, petite, and curvy -along with seven skin tones, 22 eye colors, and 24 hairstyles. Dolls with wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs followed.
Barbie has had her own video games, animated films, and television series. The 2023 live-action Barbie film grossed $1.44 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman. The 2026 Barbie stamps tell the story of a doll that has spent decades showing girls what a future can look like.
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