'Signed, sealed, delivered': New stamp celebrates U.S. women's soccer

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced a raft of caller postage stamp designs that volition beryllium rolled retired adjacent year, including 1 that gets the seal of support from the U.S. women's nationalist team arsenic they hole to clasp their crown astatine the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

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The caller collection features a wide scope of designs that, the USPS says, "highlight our unsocial American culture," and includes a fig of salient individuals who person had a large societal influence. Former Supreme Court justness Ruth Bader Ginsburg is honoured, on with novelist Toni Morrison, popular creator Roy Lichtenstein and civilian rights person Chief Standing Bear.

There is besides a stamp that pays homage to women's shot successful the United States, each the mode up from the web of younker leagues to the reigning satellite champions of the USWNT. Designed by Antonio Alcala utilizing an illustration by Noah MacMillan, the stamp features a subordinate acrobatically "walloping a shot with a broadside volley" successful a streamlined, modernist benignant that is intended to picture the dynamic question and question of the women's game.

"Signed, sealed, delivered. Can't hold to beryllium successful your mailboxes," the USWNT wrote connected Twitter.

— U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (@USWNT) October 24, 2022

While the 2 worlds mightiness not beryllium an evident pairing, shot has provided the inspiration for stamp artwork connected respective occasions successful the past. Indeed, respective prima names person successfully played their mode into the satellite of philately.

In Sweden only: Zlatan Ibrahimovic stamps @Ibra_official #stamps #Ibrahimovic #ibhahimovicstamps pic.twitter.com/vKxbS1Dyu3

— Players In Pics (@PlayersInPics) March 27, 2014

It possibly goes without saying that Zlatan Ibrahimovic was bestowed with his ain enactment of stamps by the Swedish Postal Service (Posten) backmost successful 2014.

The limited-edition acceptable featured 5 antithetic images of the seasoned striker and proved an instant hit, with implicit 5 cardinal stamps selling successful beforehand of their launch.

In a akin vein, Robert Lewandowski recovered himself featured connected a Polish postage stamp up of the 2018 World Cup aft scoring 16 goals successful 10 games during the qualifying campaign.

Five cardinal stamps of the nation's all-time apical extremity scorer were printed and launched connected the opening time of the tournament, selling for 6 Zloty (roughly €1.25) each.

Cementing his spot arsenic a nationalist sporting hero, Armenia's grounds extremity scorer Henrikh Mkhitaryan received his precise ain signature postage stamp successful 2019.

Are you Team Ronaldo oregon Team Messi. Both of these stamps of excavation are from Burundi 🇧🇮 The Lionel Messi stamp was successful an @ExploringStamps video and I conscionable had to bargain it! #philately #stampcollecting #stampcollection #stamps pic.twitter.com/9RdoXUkr8p

— The Young Philatelist (@YungPhilatelist) September 10, 2020

While neither person received a stamp from their respective autochthonal countries, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo person some starred connected stamps successful the African federation of Burundi.

Royal Mail releases Football Heroes stamps of shot legends including George Best pic.twitter.com/qcD7VqYK

— maurice fitzmaurice (@mofitzmaurice) February 8, 2013

In 2013, the Royal Mail released a peculiar postulation to people the 150th day of the Football Association rules of the crippled being established. It featured 12 of the top British footballing talents connected idiosyncratic stamps including the likes of Bobby Moore (England), Denis Law (Scotland), John Charles (Wales) and George Best (Northern Ireland.)

Entirely fitting that the changeable is destined for the top-right corner. #PostageStamp pic.twitter.com/dMx0KLl3DC

— Nat. Football Museum (@FootballMuseum) January 7, 2020

However, possibly the coolest football-themed stamp ever produced was the peculiar Sensible Soccer tribute released successful 2020 arsenic portion of a 12-piece acceptable paying homage to classical UK-designed video games from the 1980s and 1990s.