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2026 First-Class Forever Stamp,Diwali
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2026 Diwali
- Honors important Hindi holiday
- 2nd Diwali stamp issued by USPS
- Features a rangoli – a symbol of good luck
Stamp Category: Special
Set: Holiday Celebrations
Value: 82¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: October 21, 2026
First Day City: Washington, DC
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
Format: Pane of 20
Why the stamp was issued: This stamp was issued in honor of Diwali, an important holiday on the Hindu calendar.
About the stamp design: The Diwali stamp features a rangoli, a traditional floor pattern made during the five day holiday. The design was created by Sangita Bhutada, an India native and Houston resident, who has been practicing the art for almost 30 years.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue ceremony took place at the Embassy of India in Washington, DC.
About the Holiday Celebration Series: The USPS introduced the Holiday Celebration series in 1996 with a stamp honoring the Jewish festival, Hanukkah. The series commemorated a different cultural or religious holiday each year such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Eid, and others.
History the stamp represents: Before the fireworks and the strings of lights, there is a single flame. A woman steadies her hands, lifts a small clay lamp, and lights it alone - the private moment that starts everything else. No one is watching yet. There is no crowd, no noise, just the small ritual of bringing light into a room that didn’t have any a moment ago. Diwali begins here, in a stillness most people never see, long before it becomes the celebration the rest of the world recognizes.
That same quiet care shows up at the threshold of the home, where families lay down rangoli - patterns built one handful of sand at a time, in bright reds, blues, and golds, pressed into place with fingers instead of tools. No two are ever quite the same; the pattern lives only in the hands and memory of whoever kneels down to make it. A finished design can take hours of steady, careful work. Everyone making it knows exactly how long it will last: only until footsteps or wind carry it away.
That’s the part of Diwali this stamp captures - not the size of the celebration, but the care poured into things built to disappear. The lamp burns down. The pattern gets swept from the doorstep. Neither was ever meant to be kept, and no one making them expects otherwise. The beauty was always in the making, not in what was left behind.
2026 Diwali
- Honors important Hindi holiday
- 2nd Diwali stamp issued by USPS
- Features a rangoli – a symbol of good luck
Stamp Category: Special
Set: Holiday Celebrations
Value: 82¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: October 21, 2026
First Day City: Washington, DC
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
Format: Pane of 20
Why the stamp was issued: This stamp was issued in honor of Diwali, an important holiday on the Hindu calendar.
About the stamp design: The Diwali stamp features a rangoli, a traditional floor pattern made during the five day holiday. The design was created by Sangita Bhutada, an India native and Houston resident, who has been practicing the art for almost 30 years.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue ceremony took place at the Embassy of India in Washington, DC.
About the Holiday Celebration Series: The USPS introduced the Holiday Celebration series in 1996 with a stamp honoring the Jewish festival, Hanukkah. The series commemorated a different cultural or religious holiday each year such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Eid, and others.
History the stamp represents: Before the fireworks and the strings of lights, there is a single flame. A woman steadies her hands, lifts a small clay lamp, and lights it alone - the private moment that starts everything else. No one is watching yet. There is no crowd, no noise, just the small ritual of bringing light into a room that didn’t have any a moment ago. Diwali begins here, in a stillness most people never see, long before it becomes the celebration the rest of the world recognizes.
That same quiet care shows up at the threshold of the home, where families lay down rangoli - patterns built one handful of sand at a time, in bright reds, blues, and golds, pressed into place with fingers instead of tools. No two are ever quite the same; the pattern lives only in the hands and memory of whoever kneels down to make it. A finished design can take hours of steady, careful work. Everyone making it knows exactly how long it will last: only until footsteps or wind carry it away.
That’s the part of Diwali this stamp captures - not the size of the celebration, but the care poured into things built to disappear. The lamp burns down. The pattern gets swept from the doorstep. Neither was ever meant to be kept, and no one making them expects otherwise. The beauty was always in the making, not in what was left behind.
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