The petition pointed out that while thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes on the Pacific Coast, more than 30,000 volunteered to serve in the military.

The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2016, and the Ropex show will celebrate with several postmarks.

Readers were also interested in Canada Post's Star Trek 50th anniversary set and a breakdown of the 1875 1¢ Franklin carrier reprint.

Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan, not one to make rash promises, acknowledged May 10 that she was “cautiously optimistic” that lawmakers might finally address her agency’s financial woes.

For the first half of fiscal 2016, the USPS said its operating income rose to $1.8 billion, up from $1.4 billion in fiscal 2015.

A new pictorial postmark commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of U.S. author Jack London.

The Royal Mail has sent a letter to a Bristol, UK, resident labeling the home's cat as a "threat" in wake of recent issues with a postman.

Also this week, Mary-Anne Penner was appointed to be the USPS director of stamp services, and a new Star Trek stamp was released.

A year after she was placed in charge of the United States Postal Service’s stamp program, Mary-Anne Penner is no longer the acting director of stamp services.

A former United States Postal Service letter carrier from Florida was sentenced April 21 to four months in prison for flying his tiny gyrocopter onto the U.S. Capitol grounds in what a federal judge branded an act of “self-aggrandizement.”

It’s been a rough start for the nation’s 74th postmaster general. Since taking office in February 2015, Megan J. Brennan has endured setback after setback in her attempts to right the troubled United States Postal Service.

Also this week, Lewis Carroll’s stamp case is on display at the British Library, and the fifth U.S. National Parks stamp honors the Carlsbad Caverns.

An April 11 postmark from Middlesboro, Ky., accomplishes the dual goal of honoring Cumberland National Historical Park, and celebrating the new 2016 quarter dollar that also commemorates the park. The quarter was launched that day with an 11 a.m. ceremony at the park’s visitor center.

A new report confirms what a lot of postal customers have been saying for months: mail service isn’t as good as it used to be. That’s the verdict that the Postal Regulatory Commission delivered March 28, declaring there has been “a recent dramatic decline of service performance” for single-piece letters and postcards, and that all forms of first-class mail had failed to be delivered as quickly as promised.

When Postmaster General James Farley went to San Antonio in 1937 to dedicate the Texas city’s new post office and federal building, he used the event to plug stamp collecting. “You’ll find it a lot of fun,” he told a crowd of 3,500. “And besides it helps the [Post Office] department.” Today you would be hard pressed to find a more beautiful post office in America than the six-story Beaux Arts building Farley dedicated across the street from the Alamo. Yet if you go into the post office and buy a stamp — as Farley urged 79 years ago —you are in for an ordeal.

33-year United States Postal Service carrier Patrick Barton received the National Safety Council’s Million Mile Club award last week after reaching the milestone without a single preventable accident on his record.

Also this week, the U.S. 1936 Great Seal airmail special delivery stamp was the focus of our Tip of the Week, a contributor put two stamp-perforation-measuring computer programs to the test, and the APS announced its considering changes to its World Series of Philately exhibiting.

A British company that purchased the historic Old Main Post Office says it will fight any effort by the City of Chicago to acquire the building through eminent domain.

Every four years, the United States Postal Service counts on a surge of political mailings to fill its mailbags. This year expectations are high, with postal officials hoping for as much as $1 billion in added revenue, more than double the level of 2012 political mailings. But the Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General is throwing cold water on those estimates.

A postmark showing a duck and a carousel is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Webfooters Post Card Club of Portland, Ore. The group is celebrating March 26 with an anniversary event at Oaks Park Dance Pavilion in Portland that includes a post office cancellation station, social hour, guest speaker and more.