La Posta provides research, news and information regarding all aspects of American postal history. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.

Journal editors and authors are encouraged to submit articles of fewer than 8,000 words no later than Dec. 1.

The system was not limited to mail from the United States. When this method was in operation, any mail coming into the United Kingdom could receive the diamond marking.

The “E-Stamp” version is not supposed to be released until March 10, 2025, and was unknown to collectors until it appeared online.

A member of the UPSS for decades, Porter Venn held the combined office of secretary and treasurer from 2002 until 2016 and then treasurer from 2016 to 2021.

The 1936 American Philatelic Society convention cinderella label has a beautiful design and was printed by the American Banknote Company.

Having these numbers handy will allow you to easily locate these stamps in the Scott catalogs and learn about their production and values.

Aside from the position miscue, the bogus Emilio Sanchez pane is a near clone of its genuine counterpart.

The 2024 Indypex will feature a special cachet honoring the solar eclipse that passed through Indiana on April 8, 2024.

There will be two prizes given to the winners: one for the best philatelic line and one for the best nonphilatelic line.

The Flag stamps have four designs and were issued June 14 in four formats printed by two printers, Ashton Potter and Banknote Corporation of America.

Each of the new Autumn Colors stamps showcases a picture taken by Allen Rokach (1941-2021), a highly acclaimed nature and garden photographer.

Every person touring the truck was given an engraved souvenir sheet showing the White House. The souvenir sheets, which were not valid for postage, were printed aboard the rolling museum.

The three covers marked “Sterilized” are addressed to the same family and were sent between November 1924 and June 1926. The markings are identical, and all are in light purple.

This is Knight’s fourth National Duck Stamp Collectors Society stamp. Her artwork appears on the 2013, 2018 and 2021 NDSCS stamps.

Highlights include a bourse (sales area) of more than 75 dealers from the United States and overseas offering stamps, postal history and supplies; a cachetmakers’ bourse; more than 800 frames of competitive exhibits; and meetings and seminars covering a wide array of topics.

Sony Pictures Studio in Culver City, Calif., played host to the first-day ceremony for the new United States Alex Trebek commemorative forever stamp.

The Collectors Club of Chicago will make yearly donations of $5,000 to the Boston 2026 World Expo.

Also this week, an unusual parachute mail experiment from Fort Campbell in Kentucky, and the hot market for modern Mongolia stamps.

It isn’t that often we get a window into what the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC) looks like.