Also this week, the story of an Express Mail cover to Lithuania that spent three months in the mailstream before being returned to the sender, and a word search puzzle featuring housewares illustrated on stamps.

The stamp does not depict an actual menorah but instead features nine multicolored representations of flames.

The stamp design features a black-and-white image of Monique Mercure with her first name in large red letters at the top of the stamp and her last name at the bottom.

Also this week, finding collectors within the U.S. Postal Service, and a favorable review of a sample from a mixture of 500 off-paper worldwide stamps.

The design shows a Ukrainian soldier on the beach at Snake Island offering a middle finger salute to a Russian warship in response to the Russian demand that the island defenders surrender.

As in other years, Canada Post offers the choice of stamps featuring religious Christmas imagery or secular holiday imagery.

A highlight for this year’s Scott Digital Catalogue Subscription edition of the Classic Specialized catalog was the addition of approximately 400 new images.

What do these Scott numbers signify? In short, each stamp’s listing in an upcoming edition of the 2024 Scott catalogs.

For the first time in a Royal Mail Christmas issue, each stamp has a barcode printed in one of the dominant colors of the stamp.

The Crypto souvenir sheets were developed in conjunction with the U.N. Office of Information and Communications Technology.

The first 2023 issue celebrates the Year of the Rabbit with 10 $1.40 stamps and labels for use at the post office at U.N. headquarters in New York City.

The souvenir sheet of five stamps issued Oct. 10 by the Netherlands’ PostNL commemorates the 70th anniversary of Donald Duck Weekblad, a Dutch comic magazine.

In 1923-24, Estonia issued two Map of Estonia stamps, a 100-mark denomination on paper with a lilac network and a 300m stamp on paper with a buff network.

Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have offered similar services, all with customer convenience in mind.

The stamps feature some of Aardman Studios’ most popular characters, such as Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run’s Rocky and Ginger.

This set, issued as both a pane of five and a booklet of 10 stamps, follows a previous Canadians in Flight set released March 27, 2019.

The “Crimean Bridge - Done” stamp design is by Ukrainian artist Yuri Shapoval.

Canada Post will honor Tommy Prince, a decorated Indigenous war veteran, on a stamp to be issued Oct. 28.

The souvenir sheet contains one 19-krone stamp.

The program will begin Jan. 14 with a pane of 10 stamps celebrating the Year of the Rabbit.