The Thoreau Society, in association with Thoreau Farm, sponsored a July 12 pictorial postmark from the author’s birthplace, Concord, Mass.

The International Mailers’ Advisory Group said July 12 that increases are planned for international priority airmail and international surface air lift.

Also this week, we dove into a set of covers that tells the stories of those who landed on Ellis Island.

The pending retirement of House Oversight chairman Jason Chaffetz appears to signal the end to his efforts to enact postal reform in Congress.

After uncut press sheets without die cuts were abruptly pulled from sale by the U.S. Postal Service, press sheets with die cuts remained available.

Just about 15 miles west of Charleston, the capital of West Virginia, is the city of Nitro, which is celebrating its centennial this year with a postmark.

Also this week, we discover some historic contents in a damaged cover, and we take a bite out of some Dutch food stamps that look good enough to eat.

The strawberry red pictorial postmark was put into service June 3 to mark the opening of the 2017 Troy Strawberry Festival in Troy, Ohio.

Described in a recent YouTube video, Voice Stamp “will get rid of the antiquated stamp and make postage paperless.”

A pictorial postmark in red celebrates the June 3 opening of the annual Troy Strawberry Festival in Troy, Ohio.

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.

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.

Also this week, Linn's managing editor Chad Snee highlights some treasured covers in his Dollar-Sign Stamps column.

President Donald J. Trump has entered the debate over the future of the United States Postal Service, endorsing some unpopular cost-cutting ideas.

Also this week, we continued our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Great Britain's famous Machin definitive series.

Before mail trucks, there were mail trains. This postmark commemorates the Chester Railway Mail service in Massachusetts.

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.

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.

A commemorative postmark for the Alaska Purchase was put into use in Anchorage, Alaska, this year on March 30.

A pretty significant stamp milestone passed last month with little notice. It was the 10th anniversary of the first United States forever stamp.