(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the United States Postal Service)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Boston, MA) A stamp of Pittsburgh’s favorite neighbor, Mister Rogers, has won the United States Postal Service Stamp Encore Contest. 

Last year, the USPS invited the public to vote for a favorite stamp pane to be reprinted as part of the agency’s 250th anniversary celebration. The contest featured 25 stamp panes selected from some of the Postal Service’s bestselling and most popular releases in recent years. 

More than 500,000 votes were cast over 10 weeks, and officials announced yesterday at the Boston 2026 World Expo that the 2018 Mister Rogers Forever stamp received the most votes, finishing 40,000 ahead of the runner-up. 

The reissued stamp and a new four-image souvenir sheet featuring characters from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’s Neighborhood of Make-Believe will be available beginning June 1 at Post Office locations nationwide and online.