The €1.44 stamp shows ribbons in the colors of the two nation’s flags: blue and yellow for Ukraine and red and white for Latvia.

The €0.85 Wangari Maathai stamp is for use from the post office at the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria.

Recent factors have affected the quality of service the company is able to provide.

Artist Boris Groh’s illustration received 1,756 out of the 8,000 votes cast in the poll.

Where there are political conflicts, war, interruptions and more, there is likely postal history that will come out of it.

On Aug. 3, 1933, Honduras issued a set of six Columbus’ Fleet and Flag of the Race stamps to honor Dia de la Raza (Day of the Race).

The public responded with almost 500 designs before the March 4 deadline.

Those selected were from a list of approximately 175 individuals worldwide whom Linn’s editorial team envisioned for this recognition.

Each of the 13 souvenir sheets shows Queen Elizabeth II with a different president, from Harry Truman in 1951 to Joe Biden in 2021.

The FA Cup, known as the Emirates FA Cup since 2015, is an annual soccer tournament for English clubs.

Ukrposhta, Ukraine’s post office, encouraged both professional illustrators and amateurs to participate, drawing their sketches “and thus relieve the psychological stress of war.”

The stamps will be issued at the March Party stamp show to be held Friday, March 18, through Sunday, March 20, in Strongsville, Ohio.

The award’s namesake, Col. Robert H. Pratt, devoted much of his collecting interests to the study of Newfoundland.

Also this week, how the USPS might have begun with a 7½¢ letter rate in 1971, and our anonymous reviewer sings the praises of a tempting assortment of stamps from 26 countries.

Rhodesia and Nyasaland’s main collector audience is collectors of British Africa.

Since 2000, the volume of letter mail handled by Postnord, the Swedish postal service, has gone down by some 50 percent.

Stamps from African nations are probably among the more difficult ones to get on a regular basis.

Australia began its tradition of instant stamps for gold medalists at the 2000 Games in Sydney.

David Gentleman designed more than 100 stamps for Royal Mail in a career that spanned nearly 40 years, from 1962 to 1999.

Also this week, relishing the hunt for U.S. dollar-sign covers to unusual destinations, and a review of a website devoted to stamps, coffee and conversation.