On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of François-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803), the leader of the Haitian Revolution, Haiti issued six stamps on April 7, 2003. These are the last official stamps Haiti has issued since. All other stamps since then are illegal products.

Two mini-sheets from 2010 are somewhat an exception, although they were eventually not valid for franking. On January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake occurred in Haiti, officially causing 316,000 deaths.

The mini-sheets were the result of negotiations between Margareth Emile, then Postmaster General of Haiti, and the Bureau Philatélique Bayart, Brussels, which was responsible for design, production and marketing. To be legally safe Bayart requested a formal guarantee from the Haitian government. On February 25, Mme Emile signed a certificate confirming that the sheets were an official issue of the Haitian government, to be released on March 1, 2010. The document also authorized Bayart to sell the sheets to collectors. 70% of the proceeds were to go to the Haiti Post Office and 30% to the publishing house.

On the morning of June 8, 2010, the “Métropole” and “Caraibes” radio stations reported that Postmaster General Margareth Emile had been replaced by Jean Ernest Paul (as per a presidential decree dated May 27). Her dismissal was linked to the illegal issue of the earthquake stamps. According to Josseline Fethiere, Minister of Commerce and Industry (the minister in charge of the postal service), the sheets were not authorized by the Haitian Government.