Latest Stamp News
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Sam West, who starred in the acclaimed 1992 film Howards End, is an avid stamp collector, reports the Financial Times.
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The Jefferson City post office is planning to participate with a booth set up outside the main post office downtown. Along with selling stamps, the post office is offering an Aug. 21 postmark showing the sun in eclipse and the dome of the Missouri state capitol.
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John Hotchner believes that this is one of many good methods to put stamp collecting before potential collectors, and he’d like to see more of this done in ways that tickle pre-existing interests.
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A blog, short for web log, doesn’t usually provide as much information as a standard website, but can be a source of fascinating stamp details.
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Apfelbaum’s CornerThere is only one stamp exhibition that is still the way stamp shows used to be.
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07/22/2017
Eclipse postmarks will be visible long after the total solar eclipse has passed The Jefferson City post office is planning to participate with a booth set up outside the main post office downtown. Along with selling stamps, the post office is offering an Aug. 21 postmark showing the sun in eclipse and the dome of the Missouri state capitol.
07/21/2017
Spanning bridges in China, 16 months of Canary Islands airmail stamps, and a 2012 U.S. stamp tip: Inside Linn’s Stamp News Also in our Aug. 7 issue, Stamp Collecting Basics columnist Janet Klug artfully reviews the 16-month history of Canary Islands airmail stamps. All 53 stamps, she reports, are “budget friendly.”
07/20/2017
Dispute over Statue of Liberty replica on 2010 U.S. Postal Service stamp ordered to trial Federal Claims Court Judge Eric G. Bruggink rejected motions by both the Postal Service and sculptor Robert S. Davidson that would have effectively ended a four-year-old lawsuit over a stamp that was based on a replica of the Statue of Liberty.
07/20/2017
USPS letter carriers violated federal law while working for Clinton presidential campaign The accusation, made at a July 19 Senate hearing, drew an immediate apology from Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan. She called the Postal Service’s violations of the Hatch Act “unintentional” and promised to end the abuses.
