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    Jun 2, 2017, 11:30 AM

    Troy, 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.

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    Jun 2, 2017, 08:00 AM

    Donald 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.

  • chinese-new-year-stamp-imperforate-uncut-press-sheets
    May 31, 2017, 05:15 AM

    U.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.

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    May 26, 2017, 06:15 AM

    Trump 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.

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    May 24, 2017, 09:15 AM

    President 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.

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    May 19, 2017, 09:00 AM

    USPS 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.

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    May 17, 2017, 15:00 PM

    May 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.

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    May 15, 2017, 06:30 AM

    USPS 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.

  • usps-fiscal-2017-financial-update
    May 11, 2017, 08:30 AM

    USPS 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.

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    May 7, 2017, 04:00 AM

    Alaska 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.

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    May 1, 2017, 13:00 PM

    10th 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.

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    Apr 23, 2017, 13:00 PM

    USPS 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.

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    Apr 15, 2017, 10:00 AM

    Congress’ 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.

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    Apr 10, 2017, 06:15 AM

    Congress’ 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.

  • st-louis-stamp-expo-postmark
    Apr 9, 2017, 10:00 AM

    St. 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.

  • garfield-perry-stamp-club-red-pears-stamp-postmark
    Mar 27, 2017, 05:00 AM

    Garfield-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.

  • united-states-postal-service-stamp-prices-rate-of-inflation
    Mar 24, 2017, 10:30 AM

    U.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.

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    Mar 21, 2017, 13:00 PM

    Stamp 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.

  • usps-informed-delivery-program
    Mar 9, 2017, 05:00 AM

    ‘Informed Delivery’ lets USPS customers see their mail ahead of delivery

    Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan says this new test program, which should be nationwide later this year, “puts the power of mail onto digital channels.”

  • stamp-fulfillment-services-showroom-weeks-most-read
    Mar 3, 2017, 03:45 AM

    USPS official investigated; more counterfeits surface: Week’s Most Read

    Also this week, more counterfeit U.S. stamps surfaced, and we remembered former postmaster general Benjamin Franklin Bailar.

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