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.

The new stamp-issue listings from the Scott New Issues Update in the November 17 Linn's Stamp News Monthly Edition fall into the following popular topical collecting areas.

Panama was a sovereign state under Colombian dominion in 1878 when its first stamps were issued.

Stamp collecting is somewhat akin to time travel. Select any stamp or cover from your collection and close observation of it can transport you back into the time period it represents.

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

For more than 30 years, the United States Postal Service issued various nondenominated stamps. Some were created in advance of rate changes, when the next letter rate still hadn’t been determined.

The currency of Indochina changed from French centimes and francs to cents and piasters in 1918. Stamps were initially surcharged and later reprinted to reflect the monetary change.

In 1897, the United Kingdom was celebrating the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, who became queen 60 years earlier.

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

It is not surprising that Greece was the first nation to use an image of Hermes on its postage stamps. In fact, Hermes graced the first Greek postage stamps, issued in 1861.

The fact is, there just isn't a hard and fast definition of souvenir sheet that everyone agrees on.

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