The colorful birds depicted on the stamps are the gorgeous bush shrike, the ornate hawk eagle and the gray-headed kingfisher.

The Virtual Stamp Show will take place over six days, Aug. 17-22. Registration is now open for the free online event.

The Falkland Islands will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Group on a set of four stamps scheduled to be issued Sept. 7.

The United Nations Postal Administration will issue a pane of six semipostal stamps Aug. 11 with the message “We Are All In This Together/Help stop the spread of COVID-19.”

Spain’s Correos recently began a new series of stamps called Women in Science (Mujeres en la Ciencia).

The market for Indian stamps is still strong and active.

Thanks to all the readers who shared their fond memories of personalized postage.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s symposium will be presented using the Zoom video conferencing platform.

Also this week, discovering the popularity of U.S. 19th-century county cancels, and revealing the sobering history behind the German occupation stamps used in Belgium during World War I.

A thorough line-by-line review of Japan took place, with almost 7,000 value changes made. More than 1,000 values were adjusted for Macao.

On May 4, 2006, Kenya issued a set of four stamps featuring freshwater fish of Lake Victoria. The set was not well publicized or widely distributed.

Many organizations post links to their videos on their websites and allow them to be freely viewed even by nonmembers for a limited time.

Eight of the new Queen stamps depict album covers. The other five stamps are together in a souvenir sheet and feature scenes from live performances and a studio photograph of the band.

Also this week, a challenging search for United States Express Mail parcels with heavyweight frankings, and a mixture serves up stamps from the Tongan island of Niuafo’ou that picture butterflies.

The Western Desert includes most of the interior of Western Australia, northern South Australia and the southwest corner of the Northern Territory.

Each of the 16 new self-adhesive stamps is nondenominated, paying the basic domestic rate.

Some areas of the United States have experienced more mail delivery disruptions than others.

Also this week, a market tip for the U.S. 1926 stamp picturing President William McKinley, and a worldwide assortment includes numerous 1999 Millennium series stamps from Great Britain.

Escher designed a handful of stamps for the Netherlands and some Dutch colonies.

The year 2020 marks the 54th anniversary of the show’s philatelic literature competition.