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  • national-cachetmakers-day-postmark-great-american-stamp-show
    Jul 24, 2024, 13:00 PM

    National Cachetmakers Day postmark available

    by Linn’s Staff
    American First Day Cover Society president Lloyd de Vries designated Saturday, Aug. 17, as National Cachetmakers Day in a July 11 presidential proclamation.

  • usps-letter-carrier-wendell-watkins-jeopardy
    Jul 18, 2024, 13:00 PM

    Retired USPS letter carrier recalls 2007 appearance on ‘Jeopardy!’

    by Allen Abel
    Recorded on Sept. 11, 2007, episode 5,362 was U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Wendell Watkins’ quiz show debut and, as it turned out, his swan song.

  • alvin-deep-diving-vehicle-woods-hole-oceanographic-institution-postmark
    Jul 9, 2024, 10:30 AM

    Postmark celebrates 60 years of ‘Alvin’s’ deep-sea exploration

    by Molly Goad
    Alvin is a manned deep-diving vehicle operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

  • united-states-postal-service-logo
    Jul 8, 2024, 13:00 PM

    USPS receives sustainability award from Biden administration; DeJoy does U-turn on electric vehicles

    by Allen Abel
    Recipients of the sustainability award were selected from a pool of more than 140 nominees and represent domestic and international facilities or projects spanning 10 federal agencies.

  • taishonna-shakeara-stewart-hypothermia-rescue-delivering-the-mail
    Jul 1, 2024, 07:45 AM

    Two USPS letter carriers rescue 85-year-old woman from the jaws of hypothermia

    by Allen Abel
    Letter carriers Shakeara and Taishonna Stewart have been recognized as bona fide U.S. Postal Service heroes for rescuing Rebecca Mitchell after Mitchell fell and broke her leg.

  • alicia-cheng-usps-citizens
    Jun 27, 2024, 11:30 AM

    Cheng appointed to Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee

    by Linn’s Staff
    Cheng works as the head of design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

  • united-states-2024-shaker-design-stamps-pane
    Jun 25, 2024, 12:30 PM

    A consequential letter set a young man on a path from Methodist to Shaker

    by Allen Abel
    The last of the celibate, communal, consecrated Shakers was a teenage Methodist in Massachusetts when he received a letter that changed his life.

  • usps-grumman-long-life-vehicles-sidney-ohio-post-office
    Jun 25, 2024, 10:45 AM

    What’s going to happen to all the USPS long-life vehicles?

    by Jay Bigalke
    New U.S. Postal Service electric vehicles are starting to roll out nationwide, so something would have to happen to the other, older vehicles.

  • wentworth-by-the-sea-resort-hotel-150th-anniversary-postmark
    Jun 21, 2024, 10:00 AM

    New Hampshire’s historic coastal hotel celebrates 150 years

    by Molly Goad
    A member of Historic Hotels of America since 2007, Wentworth by the Sea was built in the 1870s.

  • navajo-nation-election-flyers-gap-trading-post-arizona
    Jun 17, 2024, 08:00 AM

    Navajo Nation embraces the right to vote in person and by mail

    by Allen Abel
    The 21st century has brought great changes to the way that the Navajo and other isolated Native Americans cast their ballots.

  • napex-postmark-50th-anniversary-president-nixon-resignation-watergate
    Jun 7, 2024, 09:00 AM

    Napex 2024 postmark illustrates Watergate break-in controversy

    by Molly Goad
    What initially seemed like a minor burglary evolved into a major incident involving widespread abuses of power by members of the Nixon administration.

  • baring-missouri-post-office-destroyed-tornado-rebuilding
    Jun 6, 2024, 08:30 AM

    Tempestuous tornado tears through post office in Baring, Mo., sparks a Mennonite rebuild

    by Allen Abel
    Baring is an agricultural community with a population of 125 located in Knox County in what the locals call NEMO, northeast Missouri.

  • usps-board-governors-daniel-tangherlini-yosemite-national-park
    May 31, 2024, 14:00 PM

    Reflections of a USPS board member at Ansel Adams event

    by Jay Bigalke
    Tangherlini has been a member of the USPS board since May 2022, and his term expires in December 2027.

  • philatelic-show-national-grilled-cheese-day-pictorial-postmark
    May 22, 2024, 13:45 PM

    Cheesy postmark celebrates National Grilled Cheese Day

    by Molly Goad
    The grilled cheese postmark has been extended for 30 days.

  • wiscopex-2024-qwerty-postmark
    May 16, 2024, 12:45 PM

    Wiscopex 2024 pays tribute to Wisconsin’s inventions with QWERTY postmark

    by Molly Goad
    Named after the first six letters on the keyboard’s top row, QWERTY quickly became the standard layout for typewriters and later for computer keyboards.

  • national-postal-museum-logo
    May 15, 2024, 10:30 AM

    National Postal Museum presents postal history awards

    by Linn’s Staff
    The National Postal Museum presents these awards every two years to recognize scholarship on the history of the American postal system.

  • united-states-postal-service-logo
    May 13, 2024, 11:59 AM

    Illinois letter carrier saves a customer’s life after finding a suicide note in a mailbox

    by Allen Abel
    It turns out that letter carrier J.T. Wilkey and the person who left the notes in the mailbox had chatted nearly every day.

  • michael-kubayanda-chairman-postal-regulatory-commission
    May 9, 2024, 10:45 AM

    PRC chairman Kubayanda says USPS is in a ‘nosedive’

    by Allen Abel
    A significant deterioration in service performance is the primary source of complaints to the Postal Regulatory Commission from members of Congress and the general public, Kubayanda said.

  • united-states-department-of-justice-logo
    May 7, 2024, 08:30 AM

    California resident from China pleads guilty in largest postal counterfeiting operation in U.S. history

    by Allen Abel
    Law enforcement documents illuminated a massive trans-Pacific fraud and forgery scheme that duped the United States Postal Service into accepting, sorting, transporting and delivering more than 34 million parcels franked with duplicate, fake, worthless and previously used postage labels.

  • united-states-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy
    Apr 25, 2024, 14:00 PM

    PMG DeJoy grilled by U.S. senators over delivery delays

    by Allen Abel
    The senators gave Postmaster General Louis DeJoy “weeks, not months” to remediate delivery delays in Atlanta, Ga.; Richmond, Va.; Houston, Texas; and other major cities.

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