New USPS stamps revealed, beautiful post office doesn’t make buying stamps easy: Week’s Most Read

It’s time to catch up on the week that was in stamp-collecting insights and news.

Linn’s Stamp News is looking back at its five most-read stories of the week.

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5. Mystic Stamp Co. transitions to employee ownership: Owners Donald and Chacea Sundman announced April 2 that they have sold all their Mystic stock to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan. 

4. Postal Service reveals first of 16 National Parks stamps: The first stamp image revealed in the upcoming United States National Parks stamp set shows a view of Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine. 

3. Siegel International to auction remarkable Gross collection of Switzerland: The auction is taking place May 29 during the huge eight-day World Stamp Show-NY 2016 running from May 28 through June 4 at the Javits Center in New York City.

2. Buying stamps can be an ordeal at San Antonio post office: Today you would be hard pressed to find a more beautiful post office in America than the six-story Beaux Arts building across the street from the Alamo. Yet if you go into the post office and buy a stamp you are in for an ordeal.

1. USPS reveals new stamps planned for May and June: United States stamps honoring national parks, classic U.S. stamps and military medals for heroism have been added to the schedule of stamps planned for 2016.

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