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  • san-diego-mlb-all-star-game-postmark
    Jul 13, 2016, 13:00 PM

    MLB All-Star Game has a San Diego postmark you can request: Postmark Pursuit

    by By Michael Baadke
    Collectors who couldn’t be on hand to catch a ball hit in the Home Run Derby will still be able to obtain a souvenir from the festivities.

  • us-postal-service-house-bill-boost-stamp-prices
    Jul 12, 2016, 11:55 AM

    House committee approves postal reform, rejects presidential appointments

    by By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent
    On July 12, a House committee approved a bill that would boost stamp prices and require USPS retirees to depend on Medicare for most medical expenses.

  • village-post-office-michigan
    Jul 12, 2016, 06:34 AM

    Labor agreement puts brakes on Village Post Offices

    by By Steven J. Bahnsen
    A recent labor agreement between the U.S. Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union has halted new Village Post Offices.

  • clyde-w-tombaugh-postmark
    Jul 9, 2016, 09:00 AM

    Astronomer who discovered Pluto honored with hometown postmark: Postmark Pursuit

    by By Michael Baadke
    The postmark comes shortly after the USPS issued two forever stamps in honor of the successful New Horizons mission to Pluto.

  • us-postal-service-slower-mail-rejected
    Jul 8, 2016, 05:29 AM

    House rejects effort to change USPS mail delivery standards

    by By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent
    Thanks to a maneuver by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, the full House on July 6 rejected the committee’s effort to require the United States Postal Service to return to the delivery standards it used prior to 2012.

  • new-radcliffe-harry-potter-stamp
    Jun 28, 2016, 11:29 AM

    In wake of controversy, USPS mum on Stamp Fulfillment Services operations

    by By Bill McAllister
    An inspector general report earlier this month revealed an unauthorized 35 percent discount that officials from the Kansas City facility promised Royal Mail.

  • postmark-nashville
    Jun 24, 2016, 07:00 AM

    Like upcoming USPS stamps, Nashville postmark celebrates soda fountain treats: Postmark Pursuit

    by By Michael Baadke
    The Nashville postmark comes as the USPS is celebrating cold sweet dessert treats with five Soda Fountain Favorites stamps issued June 30.

  • united-states-postal-service-logo-postmaster-general-appointee
    Jun 24, 2016, 05:23 AM

    Postmaster-as-appointee considered, Audrey Hepburn stamp appears: Week’s Most Read

    by CMS Admin
    Also this week, we profiled the bizarre stamps of King Farouk's Egypt, and reported on a possible infraction by the USPS.

  • radcliffe-harry-potter-stamp
    Jun 21, 2016, 10:59 AM

    Inspector General report accuses USPS of selling stamps to Royal Mail below face value

    by By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent
    The Stamp Fulfillment Services office agreed to sell Royal Mail thousands of United States Harry Potter stamps at a 35 percent discount in violation of a United States Postal Service law prohibiting the sale of U.S. stamps to anyone at less than face value.

  • united-states-postal-service-logo-new-book
    Jun 16, 2016, 13:48 PM

    New book ‘Neither Snow Nor Rain’ traces history of U.S. Postal Service

    by By Bill McAllister
    Devin Leonard captures the glories — and the follies — of this venerable, troubled institution as no recent author has.

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    Jun 16, 2016, 11:25 AM

    House bill would make postmaster general a presidential appointee

    by By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent
    The House bill would let the president name the two top postal officers to four-year terms, subject to Senate confirmation.

  • smithsonian-national-postal-museum-postmark
    Jun 14, 2016, 12:09 PM

    Trailblazing postmark from National Postal Museum honors national parks: Postmark Pursuit

    by By Michael Baadke
    A postmark from the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., celebrates the opening of a new exhibit.

  • pictorial-postmark
    Jun 8, 2016, 08:47 AM

    Michigan air show postmark June 18-19 features mail, aviation: Postmark Pursuit

    by By Michael Baadke
    Wings Over Northern Michigan is an annual air show that takes place each year over Father’s Day weekend.

  • huntsville-philatelic-club-alabama-space-station
    May 27, 2016, 11:12 AM

    Stamp show postmark celebrates International Space Station anniversary

    by By Michael Baadke
    A postmark commemorating the 15th anniversary of the International Space Station is being offered by the post office in Huntsville, Ala., home of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

  • May 27, 2016, 02:00 AM

    New Inverted Jenny website released, Farley Post Office profiled: Week’s Most Read

    by CMS Admin
    Also this week, readers liked our feature about New York's place on new stamps around of the world with WSS-NY coming up.

  • united-states-classics-forever-stamps-soakable-adhesive
    May 26, 2016, 11:01 AM

    New self-stick Classics Forever stamps will have soakable adhesive

    by By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent
    The U.S. Postal Service announced May 26 that its planned souvenir sheet of six U.S. Classics Forever stamps will have pressure-sensitive adhesive that is “water soluble.”

  • volcano-park-hawaii-stick-postcards
    May 26, 2016, 06:31 AM

    NPM exhibit salutes National Park Service centennial

    by By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent
    The park service was planning its centennial for 2016, and it wanted the museums to help mark the occasion with exhibits that would tell of its remarkable story.

  • united-states-postal-service-april-2016-financial-results
    May 25, 2016, 09:56 AM

    April financial results better than U.S. Postal Service predicted

    by By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent
    Some mailers are saying that the end of temporary surcharge on stamp prices appears to have helped the United States Postal Service’s bottom line.

  • book-how-the-post-office-created-america
    May 25, 2016, 07:40 AM

    New book chronicles ‘How The Post Office Created America’

    by By Charles Snee
    “The history of the post office is nothing less than the story of America,” begins Winifred Gallagher in the introduction to her entertaining new book, How The Post Office Created America: A History.

  • us-national-parks-offered-june-two-four
    May 23, 2016, 10:45 AM

    Sixteen postmarks for 16 National Parks stamps at World Stamp Show: Postmark Pursuit

    by By Michael Baadke
    A new commemorative stamp set honoring the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service will be issued June 2 at the stamp show.

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