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2026 First-Class Forever Stamps,Squirrels & Chipmunks in Snow
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2026 Squirrels & Chipmunks in Snow
- Set of 4 features squirrels and chipmunks in the snow
- Issued in time for the winter season
Stamp Category: Definitive
Value: 82¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: September 25, 2026
First Day City: Brookfield, Wisconsin
Quantity Issued: 210,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Booklet of 20
Why the stamp was issued: These stamps were issued to bring a touch of charm to the long winter
About the stamp design: The stamps feature four photographs – two showing eastern chipmunks, one picturing an eastern gray squirrel, and the last showing an American red squirrel.
First Day City: The stamps were debuted during the Milcopex stamp show in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
History the stamp represents: Most people see these animals often – a streak of fur across the yard, a flash of stripes darting off with a mouthful of birdseed. Both squirrels and chipmunks both help themselves to food from bird feeders, but what they do with it and how they survive winter couldn’t be more different.
Each one faces the same cold, the same short days, and the same scarce food, and each has settled on its own answer to the problem. The red squirrel holds its ground, defending a single hidden stockpile against anything that gets close - squirrel, bird, or otherwise. The gray squirrel does the opposite, scattering its food across acres of territory in thousands of small caches and trusting memory alone to find its treasures again. The chipmunk combats the season by disappearing entirely, retreating underground for months at a time and waking only to eat from its stores before drifting back off again.
Three different solutions to the same problem, worked out by animals that live close enough to people to be seen every day and rarely looked at twice. None of them migrate south. None of them gets an easier winter than the others. Each one simply finds its own way through the same cold, using whatever advantage it has.
2026 Squirrels & Chipmunks in Snow
- Set of 4 features squirrels and chipmunks in the snow
- Issued in time for the winter season
Stamp Category: Definitive
Value: 82¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: September 25, 2026
First Day City: Brookfield, Wisconsin
Quantity Issued: 210,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Booklet of 20
Why the stamp was issued: These stamps were issued to bring a touch of charm to the long winter
About the stamp design: The stamps feature four photographs – two showing eastern chipmunks, one picturing an eastern gray squirrel, and the last showing an American red squirrel.
First Day City: The stamps were debuted during the Milcopex stamp show in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
History the stamp represents: Most people see these animals often – a streak of fur across the yard, a flash of stripes darting off with a mouthful of birdseed. Both squirrels and chipmunks both help themselves to food from bird feeders, but what they do with it and how they survive winter couldn’t be more different.
Each one faces the same cold, the same short days, and the same scarce food, and each has settled on its own answer to the problem. The red squirrel holds its ground, defending a single hidden stockpile against anything that gets close - squirrel, bird, or otherwise. The gray squirrel does the opposite, scattering its food across acres of territory in thousands of small caches and trusting memory alone to find its treasures again. The chipmunk combats the season by disappearing entirely, retreating underground for months at a time and waking only to eat from its stores before drifting back off again.
Three different solutions to the same problem, worked out by animals that live close enough to people to be seen every day and rarely looked at twice. None of them migrate south. None of them gets an easier winter than the others. Each one simply finds its own way through the same cold, using whatever advantage it has.
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