Milcopex will take place Sept. 22-23 in Brookfield, Wis.

The Post Office Department issued 12 distinctive stamps for prepayment of parcel post mail and five parcel post postage due stamps.

The new Snow Globes stamps arrive in time for the holiday mailing season, and there will be an abundance of them for collectors and other postal customers to use on greeting cards and other mail.

Tony Wawrukiewicz, who died July 11, wrote the Modern U.S. Mail column for Linn's Stamp News since 2004.

The show will include a dealer’s bourse (sales area), with several regional dealers participating.

The war risk insurance system was funded by premiums that soldiers and sailors paid out of their monthly pay.

Also this week, the final Modern U.S. Mail column from postal historian Tony Wawrukiewicz, and a crossword puzzle focused on translating philatelic Portuguese into English.

It’s rare these days to hear of plane crashes, but that was not so in the earlier days of aviation.

The prestigious award recognizes Lombardi’s 20th-century exhibit, “The 1903 Two Cent Washington Shield Issue,” as the top national exhibit of the past year.

Award-winning stamp designer Chris Calle created the label, which the Portland Stamp Company produced in 3,000 sheets of nine.

The 36th annual Pinata Festival in Roswell, N.M., will host the United States Postal Service’s first-day ceremony for its new Pinatas definitive stamps.

The joint meeting came one day before the opening of Great American Stamp Show, the nation’s biggest annual philatelic extravaganza, held Aug. 10-13 near the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland.

Balpex is an American Philatelic Society World Series of Philately show.

The stamp will be issued Friday, Sept. 22, at the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City.

Also this week, a rundown of useful articles and websites devoted to perfins, and a word search puzzle highlighting colors associated with animals and plants.

The booklet pane has 12 stamps on one side and eight stamps plus the booklet cover (label) on the other side.

The error was first listed in the 2021 edition of the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers.

At first-day ceremonies, the rules for postmarking are sometimes loosely followed.

The central design shows Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad poring over a book.

The dominating theme from Linn’s readers placed the polar bears in a zoo contemplating what was on the other side of the glass.