How you add new stamps to your collection is determined by what you actually collect.

The new stamp-issue listings from the Scott New Issues Update in the April 20 Linn's Stamp News Monthly Edition fall into the following popular topical collecting areas.

The last few pages of stamp listings in Vol. 6 of the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue contain the stamp-issuing countries beginning with the letter "Z."

The new stamp-issue listings from the Scott New Issues Update in the March 16 Linn's Stamp News Monthly Edition fall into the following popular topical collecting areas.

"Overprint" is a term used to describe stamps that have additional printing added on top of the original image on the stamps.

The new stamp-issue listings from the Scott New Issues Update in the February 16 Linn's Stamp News Monthly Edition fall into the following popular topical collecting areas.

In January 1973, the United States Postal Service issued the first U.S. Love stamp.

Public auctions of stamps and covers take place nearly every week in the United States, and in cities all around the world.

The new stamp-issue listings from the Scott New Issues Update in the January 19 Linn's Stamp News Monthly Edition fall into the following popular topical collecting areas.

The 2014 U.S. Stamp Program contains information about all of the U.S. Postal Service products released during 2014, including those honoring the Year of the Horse and Shirley Chisholm.

The 2014 U.N. Stamp Program contains information about all of the United Nations Postal Administration products released during 2014, including those honoring Greetings from New York and International Jazz Day

The 2014 Canada Stamp Program contains up-to-date information about stamps and postal stationery from Canada Post.

Another type of stamp enjoys great popularity among collectors, and is part of a field filled with as many collecting challenges as postage stamps.

Great Britain has issued several Christmas-carol stamps, beginning with its first in 1973: a set of six (Scott 709-14) that tell the story of "Good King Wenceslas" in pictures that the 1853 carol provides in verse.

It doesn't take much to damage a postage stamp. After all, they are nothing more than little slips of paper that can be easily torn, creased, stained or lost.

Joint stamp issues are created when two or more postal administrations enter into an agreement to issue stamps commemorating the same chosen subject.

The new stamp-issue listings from the Scott New Issues Update in the December 15 Linn's Stamp News Monthly Edition fall into the following popular topical collecting areas.

Postage stamps are accountable paper. This means that stamps have monetary value, much like currency, until postmarks invalidate them for future use.

Stamps take us on a global journey without leaving the comfort of a favorite sofa or chair.

United States stamped envelopes offer the collector just about everything that postage stamps do — and in some ways, even more.