2025 Luna Moth Stamps

By Scott Tiffney

On Aug.16 at the Great American Stamp Show in Schaumburg, Ill., the United States Postal Service will issue the nondenominated ($1.27) Luna Moth nonmachineable surcharge definitive stamp. Printed in panes of 20, the words “NON-MACHINEABLE SURCHARGE” appear at the bottom of the stamp indicating its usage. Like a nondenominated forever stamp, the Luna Moth issue will always be valid for the nonmachineable surcharge rate.

The $1.27 nonmachineable surcharge rate includes the standard 78¢ first-class mailpiece rate plus a 49¢ nonmachineable surcharge. A nonmachinable surcharge is applied to first-class mail that cannot be processed by postal machines due to their shape, size or other characteristics.

This surcharge is necessary because these items require special handling, such as manual sorting, which increases processing costs. The full description of nonmachineable first-class mail characteristics is found in the U.S. Postal Service’s Domestic Mail Manual in section 101.1.2.

The new Luna Moth nonmachineable surcharge stamp was designed by USPS art director Derry Noyes from a 2001 image of a pale green Luna moth (Actias luna) created by retired Alfred University (Alfred, N.Y.) professor of print media Joseph Sheer.

Sheer’s original artwork, “was created using a high-resolution scanner with extended focus, which was programmed in a variety of depths of field at exact points above the scanner glass. As many as 32 layers of the preserved Luna moth were scanned individually to ensure that all parts of the preserved moth would appear in sharp focus,” the Postal Service said. For the final image, Sheer then combined each of these layers, resulting in a highly detailed stamp image.

A first-day ceremony for the new Luna Moth stamp will take place Saturday, Aug. 16 at 11 a.m. Central Time in the Utopia C/D room on the second floor of the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, 1551 N. Thoreau Drive, in Schaumburg, Ill. Linn’s Stamp News is working with USPS officials on the event and will produce a ceremony program. The ceremony is free and open to all show attendees.

Luna moths, also known as American moon moths, are identifiable by their striking lime-green color and the moon-like eyespots that appear on each of their four large wings. In fact, it is these moon-shaped eyespots that reminded scientists of Luna, the Roman goddess of the moon, which led to their distinctive name.

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