The show will feature a bourse (sales area) with more than 30 dealer booths along with over 150 frames of competitive exhibits.

Participating in the ceremony were the Wah Lum Kung Fu and Tai Chi Academy performance troupe who performed traditional lion and dragon dances.

Sometimes relatively recent U.S. stamp issues are overlooked by stamp dealers and collectors at the time they were issued.

The sales numbers for U.S. semipostals are updated on a more or less monthly basis on the Postal Service website.

For each of the two winners, the prize will be a 13-week subscription to Linn’s (a new subscription or an extension).

Also this week, a candidate for the earliest photo-cachet campaign cover, and some sage advice when looking for stamps from Latin America.

The stamps are denominated $1.65 for use for the post office at U.N. headquarters in New York City.

Although no official USPS first-day ceremony is planned for the two stamps, the designated first-day city is Big Sky, Mont., an appropriate location, given the vastness of the stamps’ subjects.

The layout is similar to the pane of 20 for the Peanuts commemorative forever stamps issued Sept. 30, 2022.

The theme of the show will be the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Relatively recent U.S. forever stamp issues with se-tenant (side-by-side) designs are one of the most active parts of the U.S. stamp market.

Wait times for service vary greatly from post office to post office across the United States.

Several Linn’s readers honed in on the most popular theme for our December cartoon caption contest, featuring the Peanuts comic strip character Pigpen.

The United States Postal Service announced Jan. 13 that it will issue stamps for the bedtime story Goodnight Moon and the children’s animated series SpongeBob SquarePants.

The stamps will be used in welcome packets and in the youth and beginner’s areas.

Writing letters to Santa Claus has a long and honorable history.

Designed by USPS art director Ethel Kesseler, the forever stamp features a photograph taken of the acclaimed rhythm and blues artist by photographer Bill Tompkins in New York City in 2007.

United States President Jimmy Carter died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100.

The round 32-point compass rose image — pictured on the new issue with brightly colored directional points in blue, red, yellow, and green — is from the collections of the Maine Historical Society.

The biggest eye-catching moment in 2024 was definitely the June 14-15 sale of William H. “Bill” Gross’ complete collection of classic-era United States stamps.