Today’s California was part of Mexico as late as the start of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48.

Named after the first six letters on the keyboard’s top row, QWERTY quickly became the standard layout for typewriters and later for computer keyboards.

Great Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates 20 years of Peppa Pig, the British animated TV series for preschool children, on a set of 12 stamps issued May 16.

Also this week, a study of two scarce United States additional-ounce uses from 1981, and a sample from a worldwide mixture serves up numerous nice stamps.

The plate block, which comes with a clean 2002 Professional Stamp Experts certificate, possesses fresh color, and all six stamps are well centered.

The stamp features a portrait of King Charles III initially created by Martin Jennings for new coinage from the Royal Mint.

The set of four celebrates the works of Chester Brown, Michel Rabagliati, Seth, and cousins Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki.

The National Postal Museum presents these awards every two years to recognize scholarship on the history of the American postal system.

Newspaper stamps were stamps issued specifically for the prepayment of mailing rates for newspapers, periodicals and printed matter.

Ballots must be received by ASDA executive director Dana Guyer no later than June 30.

The American Philatelic Society announced in May that it is replacing its previous online learning platform C3a.

Linn’s readers were not so sure the picture comported with reality. Several had thoughts about the feet that filled the glass slippers and the princely shoes.

It turns out that letter carrier J.T. Wilkey and the person who left the notes in the mailbox had chatted nearly every day.

The 2023 show was canceled due to the Great American Stamp Show held in Cleveland in August 2023.

A standout item from the June 7 sale of the Erivan collection of worldwide rarities is described by Corinphila as the earliest recorded use of the Canada 1851 12-penny black Queen Victoria to the United States.

All told, the lots sold during the auction realized a total (with the 18 percent buyer’s premium) of $3,065,935.

The covers of this year’s catalogs feature a postal theme, a nod to the United States Postal Service’s 250th anniversary in 2025, with a photograph of a letter carrier.

A significant deterioration in service performance is the primary source of complaints to the Postal Regulatory Commission from members of Congress and the general public, Kubayanda said.

Also this week, answering the question of how many first-day covers to produce, and a worldwide mixture serves up a stamp with a Scott catalog value of $24.

The nine stamps showcase “seven provinces and two territories, taking viewers on a cross-country journey that will stir a sense of adventure and appreciation,” Canada Post said.