POSTAL UPDATES
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Jun 11, 2017, 05:00 AMTroy, Ohio, serves up tasty strawberry red postmark for its popular festival
The strawberry red pictorial postmark was put into service June 3 to mark the opening of the 2017 Troy Strawberry Festival in Troy, Ohio. -
Jun 9, 2017, 06:30 AM‘Voice Stamp’: experimental USPS project could spell the demise of postage stamps
Described in a recent YouTube video, Voice Stamp “will get rid of the antiquated stamp and make postage paperless.” -
Jun 2, 2017, 11:30 AMTroy, Ohio, serves up red postmark to celebrate town’s annual strawberry festival
A pictorial postmark in red celebrates the June 3 opening of the annual Troy Strawberry Festival in Troy, Ohio. -
Jun 2, 2017, 08:00 AMDonald Trump’s proposed 2018 federal budget targets postal union benefits
President Trump wants to roll back some gains the postal unions have made in the almost five decades since President Nixon gave them bargaining rights. -
May 31, 2017, 05:15 AMU.S. Postal Service remains silent on demise of imperforate uncut press sheets
To the dismay of many collectors, the USPS appears to have killed one of its most profitable new products: uncut press sheets of imperforate stamps. -
May 26, 2017, 06:15 AMTrump 2018 budget takes aim at USPS, Are gimmicky stamps good?: Week’s Most Read
Also this week, Linn's managing editor Chad Snee highlights some treasured covers in his Dollar-Sign Stamps column. -
May 24, 2017, 09:15 AMPresident Trump’s 2018 budget resurrects unpopular USPS cost-cutting initiatives
President Donald J. Trump has entered the debate over the future of the United States Postal Service, endorsing some unpopular cost-cutting ideas. -
May 19, 2017, 09:00 AMUSPS PMG makes appeal to Trump, hunt for taxpaid revenue stamps: Week’s Most Read
Also this week, we continued our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Great Britain's famous Machin definitive series. -
May 17, 2017, 15:00 PMMay 20 postmark from Chester, Mass., commemorates railway mail service
Before mail trucks, there were mail trains. This postmark commemorates the Chester Railway Mail service in Massachusetts. -
May 15, 2017, 06:30 AMUSPS wants board of governors back in business
Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan recently made an open appeal to President Trump to nominate people to serve on the Postal Service's board of governors. -
May 11, 2017, 08:30 AMUSPS revenues decline during first half of 2017; package mail income up 11 percent
Thus far in 2017, United States Postal Service revenues total $36.5 billion, a decline from $37.1 billion in the first half of fiscal 2016. -
May 7, 2017, 04:00 AMAlaska Purchase sesquicentennial commemorated on Anchorage postmark
A commemorative postmark for the Alaska Purchase was put into use in Anchorage, Alaska, this year on March 30. -
May 1, 2017, 13:00 PM10th anniversary of forever stamp prompts significant USPS accounting adjustments
A pretty significant stamp milestone passed last month with little notice. It was the 10th anniversary of the first United States forever stamp. -
Apr 23, 2017, 13:00 PMUSPS offers pictorial postmark commemorating U.S. entry into World War I
The United States entered World War I when Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. This postmark honors that event. -
Apr 15, 2017, 10:00 AMCongress’ ugly history with the USPS, along with a memorable caption contest: Week’s Most Read
We also highlight a well-received cartoon caption contest, and the new surge in modern U.S. stamps within the marketplace. -
Apr 10, 2017, 06:15 AMCongress’ habit of raiding USPS coffers goes back almost 30 years
The ongoing financial woes of the USPS can be traced to congressional raids going back almost three decades. Here are three examples. -
Apr 9, 2017, 10:00 AMSt. Louis Expo postmark commemorates ragtime musician Scott Joplin
The ragtime legend Scott Joplin is honored on the latest postmark from the St. Louis Stamp Expo. -
Mar 27, 2017, 05:00 AMGarfield-Perry unofficial first-day cancel for new 10¢ Red Pears stamp
A new variety of the 10¢ Red Pears definitive stamp was issued March 23 with a first-day ceremony at the March Party stamp show in Cleveland, Ohio. -
Mar 24, 2017, 10:30 AMU.S. Postal Service pushing PRC to lift 10-year cap on stamp price increases
The price cap has proven not to be enough to keep the nation’s mail system from running huge deficits, the USPS said in a March 20 filing with the PRC. -
Mar 21, 2017, 13:00 PMStamp show cancel from Arcadia, Ohio, commemorates Amelia Earhart
Earhart was honored by the United States Post Office Department in 1963 on an 8¢ airmail stamp, which was issued on her birthday.
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