New Hampshire Letter Carrier Bill Brickley points out that while congressman Darrell Issa(R-CA) is applauding Canada Post’s plan to end door-to-door delivery within the next five years –he fails to mention Canada Post is planning on raising rates. Not only is Canada Post planning on raising rates but they are doing so by introducing a […]
Looking for a special gift this holiday season? USPS is offering wearable stamp art for sale. The items — the Made in America: Building a Nation and the 1963 March on Washington T-shirts — are available in time for the holidays. The Made in America: Building a Nation T-shirt has an image of the color […]
An account of rare turmoil within the secretive stamp committee at USPS. According to Linn’s Stamp News Bill McAllister Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC): “staged an unprecedented protest at their September 23 meeting” in Washington; voted to suspend the meeting; and all 13 members signed a three-page letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe requesting a […]
The Harvey Milk Foundation announced yesterday that the U.S. Postal Service would honor gay rights icon Harvey Milk with a stamp in honor of his memory and legacy. Milk was the first openly gay man to win political office in California when he was elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977. He will […]
Two eerie occurrences took place surrounding the nation’s first airmail flight. The pilot got lost, flew in the wrong direction and crashed. And due to a printing error of the stamp created to commemorate this historic event, the biplane depicted on the 24-cent Curtiss Jenny airmail stamp was upside down. A sheet of 100 stamps bearing […]
Press Release from the National Postal Museum: (Sept. 12, 2013) The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum opens its new William H. Gross Stamp Gallery to the public Sunday, Sept. 22. Named after its primary benefactor, it is the world’s largest stamp gallery and the only one to show stamps and mail in the context of American […]
Social media will help bring an important chapter in history to life when the Postal Service issues the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom commemorative Forever stamp. Through Aug. 23, anyone on Facebook and Twitter is invited to add a photo to the virtual March on Washington Stamp Mosaic […]
Finding Guide of Collection Now Available Howard Koslow, artist and illustrator, has donated his collection of original artwork for the U.S. stamps that he designed between 1971 and 2013 to the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. The material consists mainly of highly developed “roughs” of accepted and unaccepted stamp designs in the form of pencil sketches […]
Third of Five-Year Civil War Sesquicentennial Stamps Series Continues GETTYSBURG, PA — Two of the most important events of the Civil War were memorialized on Forever Stamps today at the sites where these conflicts took place — Gettysburg, PA, and Vicksburg, MS. Customers may purchase the Civil War Sesquicentennial 1863 collectible Forever Souvenir Stamp sheet […]
NEW YORK, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, the U.S. Postal Service released two new stamps, Where Dreams Blossom and Yes, I Do, just in time for the spring wedding season. These beautiful stamps depict floral bouquets and were dedicated at the American Stamp Dealers Association’s Spring Postage Stamp Show. “Flowers are the universal symbol […]