Betty White Forever Stamps Official USPS Tribute Collection

The U.S. Postal Service honors Betty White with a stamp graced with her likeness and exuding her spritely sense. Often called the first lady of television, her pioneering broadcasting career spanned more than eight decades. White achieved great fame with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, a couple of TV history’s most beloved and groundbreaking situation comedies, and remained phenomenally popular as an entertainer well into her nineties. These Betty White stamps are a perfect tribute to her legacy.

The Betty White Forever Stamps, sold on a pane of 20, feature a digitally created portrait of the cherished star against a violet-colored background and, in a lighter shade, bubbly spots that befit her sparkling personality. She is portrayed wearing a polka-dotted blue top. “Betty White,” is printed in white near the bottom of the stamp artwork. “FOREVER USA” is printed just below, in violet. Her name also appears centered atop the white selvage, also in violet. 

White’s broadcast debut was on a radio drama in 1930, and she appeared in an experimental television broadcast in 1939, when that medium was in its infancy. Her regular TV appearances began in 1949 with Hollywood on Television, a local program in Los Angeles; she was live on the air for more than 30 hours a week. Soon renamed The Betty White Show, it went national with a half-hour version in 1954.

White was one of the first female producers of a national situation comedy. In the early 1950s, she starred, co-wrote, and co-created a domestic sitcom, Life With Elizabeth, followed a few years later by another, Date With the Angels. Her unforgettable presence is now beautifully honored through Betty White stamps.

The Betty White Forever Stamps are being issued as a Forever® stamp. This USPS Betty White stamp will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce rate.