Australia Post is making headlines Down Under this week after it was revealed that the postal service’s CEO made a shockingly high amount of money in 2016.

The Postal Service's proposed new rules, announced Feb. 5, could have a negative impact on images appearing on computer-vended stamps.

Also this week, Uncle Sam's hat is set to make its return to U.S. stamps, and we took a closer look at Royal Mail's planned David Bowie stamps.

The hiring freeze, announced Jan. 23, was modified Jan. 31 to exclude the USPS and allow it to hire thousands of letter carrier assistants.

Also this week, we finally learned from the USPS uncut press sheet quantities for 2016 and 2017, and remembered a former Linn's editor who passed away.

The federal hiring freeze, imposed Jan. 23, could affect the Postal Service's ability to hire tens of thousands of carrier assistants.

There will be a Jan. 20 postmark from Washington, D.C., commemorating the United States presidential inauguration. But this one is different.

Emery worked for 25 years for the United States Postal Service before joining the Washington museum in 2006.

A postmark for the 200th anniversary of the Jamestown, N.Y., post office was made available Dec. 30, 2016.

A 2003 report explains why it costs so much more to sell stamps at post office counters than it does via retail outlets such as supermarkets.

The USPS is retreating from a plan to get the Staples office supply chain to offer postal services at more than 500 of its outlets.

Before going home for the Christmas holidays, the Senate once again reaffirmed its belief that the United States Postal Service needs to be regulated.

USPS expects to serve 12 million customers Monday. But a majority of them will not be waiting in line at their town’s local brick-and-mortar post office.

The town of Boston in western New York, roughly 30 minutes south of Buffalo and an hour south of Niagara Falls, turns 200 in 2017.

The covers we have seen indicate that this year’s holiday postmark is disappointing from the collector’s point of view.

Other words associated with Christmas also appear on the postmark, which is in use until Jan. 6.

In the early darkness of Dec. 5, 1916, a mail wagon driver heading for the mining camp of Jarbidge, Nev., was murdered for the $4,000 in his mail pouches.

The artist couldn’t get his political stamp design approved, and a federal judge has told the United States Postal Service it must address his complaint.

A Michigan postmark includes two happy reindeer providing a little extra horsepower to a familiar-looking USPS delivery truck.

Congress, now in its lame duck session, is not likely to pass legislation to improve the financial picture of the U.S. Postal Service.