Golf was the inspiration for several readers entering the November cartoon caption contest featuring the United States $2.40 Priority Mail stamp

The show will take place April 25-26, 2025, at the same venue used by the Plymouth Show for several years.

The illustrations on the stamps depict scenes from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a 14th-century Chinese historical novel.

The one-page exhibit program, which has no judging or popularity vote, includes topical and thematic subjects such as animals, transportation, postal history and philately.

The tagged nondenominated (55¢) stamps were printed by lithography with lenticular lens affixed.

Debra Gibson spent more than 29 years in the U.S. Air Force, with most of that time working in intelligence at postings all over the country.

These test labels are for the benefit of the person loading them into the machine to make sure they print correctly.

Having these numbers handy will allow you to easily locate these stamps in the Scott catalogs and learn about their production and values.

Among the standout subjects honored on 2024 stamps are author Saul Bellow, legendary college basketball coach John Wooden, the Underground Railroad and photographer Ansel Adams.

Up for bids will be a broad selection of stamps and postal history spanning all eras of United States philately. The sale will conclude with a number of desirable worldwide stamps and covers.

The United States Postal Service temporarily suspended international mail service to Canada as of Nov. 25 due to a national strike of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers which began Nov. 15.

The United States Postal Service is launching a new online catalog for its Operation Santa children’s gift program, the USPS said in a Nov. 18 press release.

Siegel’s sale of the collection, assembled with a discerning eye over many years, is being conducted in association with Charles F. Shreve, director of Siegel International in Dallas.

The catalog combines lightweight portability with essential listing information and values for more than 6,000 postage stamps and selected back-of-the-book issues.

In October the United States Postal Service unveiled a new “prototype for retail locations.”

The stamps of the Principality of Monaco have high design and production values and are generally known for their great eye appeal.

The best of the entries, one related to philately and one nonphilatelic, will receive a 13-week subscription to Linn’s (a new subscription or an extension).

The design highlights the Postal Service’s role in delivering holiday cheer, featuring a USPS delivery truck crossing a stone bridge, framed by a festive border of holly leaves and berries.

The peacock-themed hanukkiah features eight candles symbolizing the eight nights of the holiday, plus one candle, called a shamash, that is used to light the other eight.

The stamps, presented in four se-tenant (side-by-side) pairs, feature photographs of Churchill at defining moments of his life.