A painting of a male harlequin duck by New York artist Nicole Jeon has been selected to illustrate the 2019 junior duck stamp.

Collectors interested in exhibiting at the show in Midwest City, Okla., can contact chairman Ralph DeBoard; completed entry forms must be received by May 10.

USPS postcard offers tips to keep letter carriers safe.

Ropex will feature a 15-dealer bourse (sales area), and the USPS will be on hand to sell recent stamps and philatelic products.

Three new commemorative forever stamps, to be issued May 10, celebrate the massive project that made it possible to transport people and goods from one coast to another entirely by rail.

The Post Office Murals stamp ceremony recap was our most-read story this week.

During the show's April 15 episode, host Alex Trebek, remarked, "I can’t recall ever having ‘Stamps’ as the subject for Final Jeopardy."

This week, our tipsters offer a recommendation: "Only you know what you can afford and what you can’t. But don’t let a catalog value arbitrarily stand in your way if it is something that you need and can afford."

An enthusiastic audience – including a who’s who of Motown recording dignitaries – helped celebrate the release of the Marvin Gaye stamp April 2 in a first-day ceremony at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.

U.S. Stamp Notes columnist John M. Hotchner explores the seldom-mentioned area of labels and cards used to identify bundles of stamps being sent to post offices.

Arkansas community provides warm welcome for April stamp first-day-of-issue ceremony.

Also this week, stamps remembering Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, and a Kitchen Table Philately mixture from a 50-year collection.

It's no surprise that the article about the USPS stamp for Former President George H.W. Bush has been the most-read story this week.

Linn's readers' get creative with the 1969 10¢ airmail commemorative stamp for the July 1969 moon landing of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

The Northeastern Federation of Stamp Clubs will present Philatelic Show May 3-5 at the Boxboro Regency Hotel in Boxborough, Mass.

The design of a United States nondenominated (55¢) commemorative forever stamp honoring former President George H.W. Bush was revealed Saturday, April 6.

Art can also be found on mailed items — printed on postcards and sometimes as original art on United States postal cards.

A record-setting champion from the world of tennis will be honored on a new United States forever stamp April 23.

This week’s top story is the findings from our United States stamps 2018 popularity poll.

At a recent meeting of the Chicago Philatelic Society, one of the members shared examples of Washington stamps with unusual selvage markings.