The 1¢ letter-rate increase is tied to the approximately 1.9 percent annual rate of inflation, as shown in the Consumer Price Index.

The findings of the reports, published Aug. 10 and Sept. 14, were quickly refuted by U.S. Postal Service officials.

This week there are five Southern California post offices listed that are having fun with concept of “Date meets ZIP.”

Each year on the weekend after Labor Day, the Eastham Windmill Weekend offers a parade, craft show, road race, vehicle show, cookouts, and much more.

Also this week, readers were introduced to an expansive new collection of essays discussing philatelic forgeries.

The new report says there are far more people visiting the nation’s 30,000 post offices than the Postal Service’s official estimates indicate.

Also this week, we offered insights on how to become more familiar with stamp collecting terms and phrases.

The three designs each have a double-ring circular datestamp at right and an illustration at left.

Mail service and retail operations were disrupted in the East Texas region devastated by Hurricane Harvey in late August.

“Postal officials didn’t spell out what any of the new rates would be,” Dead Tree Edition, a website that covers postal issues, reported Aug. 26.

The explosion of solar eclipse postmarks that began with last week’s listing continues this week.

A collector in the United Kingdom was surprised to learn that Stamp Fulfillment Services would no longer accept payment using his credit card.

The total solar eclipse sweeping across the United States Aug. 21 is the theme for numerous pictorial cancels in this week’s listings.

There are some numbers in the U.S. Postal Service’s latest financial report that seriously worry top postal officials.

Also this week, additional information came to light about an elusive 1904 cover sent from Alaska to Indiana that lost its stamp.

An investigative firm in Washington, D.C., has called into question some of the price discounting behind the Postal Service’s ‘postage reselling’ program.

The Rochester Red Wings baseball team paid tribute July 23 to Robert Panara, the grandfather of deaf studies, who worked in Rochester, N.Y.

The inspector general blamed some of the problem on landlords “failing to perform requested repairs.”

The stamps show one Ford “Deuce” in black with orange-red and yellow flames on the sides of the hot rod and the other “Deuce” in red.

The total solar eclipse will be visible within a relatively narrow band roughly 70 miles wide that will cross the nation.