This week’s top story is the United States Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin’s suspension of payments into the postal retiree fund.

The conference comes in the wake of last year’s announcement by President Donald J. Trump that the United States will withdraw from the UPU after 144 years of membership.

The suspension of payments into the postal retiree fund is caused by the statutory debt limit now back in effect.

The United States Postal Service board of governors stating its support of the administration’s decision to move to self-declared rates was the most read Linn's story this week.

The Linpex cancel gives a tip of the hat to this year’s APS Stampshow coming to Omaha, Neb. in August.

United States Postal Service board of governors fully supports the administration’s decision to move to self-declared rates.

The Valentine Remailing Program of Loveland, Colo., is sponsoring a pictorial postmark celebrating love.

Declines in first-class mail revenues and a significant increase in operating expenses further deepened the financial challenges faced by the United States Postal Service.

Mary-Anne Penner, the director of stamp services for the United States Postal Service, retired as of Jan. 31.

Other top stories include a valuable pre-Civil War issue, and Linn's editor-in-chief's thoughts on revealing stamps designs early to avoid a mishap.

The 13th vessel in the Freedom class of littoral combat ships was commissioned Jan. 12 at Naval Station Mayport near Jacksonville, Fla.

Following the Jan. 27 United States postage rate change, the postage values of most rate-specific U.S. stamps are evenly divisible by 5¢.

A Dec. 28 postmark commemorates the 5,000th dive of the submersible research vessel Alvin (SDV 2).

In a statement published Dec. 4, USPS acknowledged the release on that day of the lengthy report from the Trump administration’s Task Force on the United States Postal System.

The First Flight Society is commemorating the 115th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ success with two postmarks dated Dec. 17.

The Task Force on the United States Postal System created last April at the behest of President Donald J. Trump publicly released its report to the president on Dec. 4.

President Donald J. Trump has called on Americans to observe Dec. 5 as a national day of mourning for President George H.W. Bush.

Postmark celebrates the recent success of InSight, NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport mission.

The Postal Regulatory Commission's approval of the USPS's rate change request was understandably our top story over the past week.

The airmail hangar at Smith Field in Fort Wayne, Ind., has been designated as the future site of the National Airmail Museum.