At 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 26, a ceremony will be held for the United States Floral Geometry $1 stamp.

Also this week, a seasoned zeppelin specialist shares the joy of watching her collection come to life at a show, and a mixture of United States stamps stirs fond childhood memories.

Linn's Washington correspondent Allen Abel fondly recalls working at the FDR Station post office in New York City more than 50 years ago.

The new nondenominated (10¢) Radiant Star coil stamp will be issued in rolls of 3,000 and 10,000.

The December 1944 Christmas postcard is a testament to short-sightedness.

Prices vary widely depending on whether the FDC is cacheted or uncacheted, registered or regular mail, addressed or unaddressed, and so on.

Australia Post getting ready to phase out daily letter deliveries, and Great Britain is considering reducing letter delivery from six to possibly five or three days a week.

An example of the extremely rare U.S. 1851 1¢ blue Benjamin Franklin type I stamp is part of the franking on a striking bronze floral valentine cover mailed from Deep River, Conn., to Westbrook, Conn.

Two lots in Bonhams’ auction of costumes and props from The Crown are framed digital prints of stamp essays featured in the show.

The unveiling did not feature any of the specially designed vehicles that the USPS has commissioned to form the majority of its future delivery fleet.

Nancy B. Clark was among the 76 collectors profiled in Linn’s Stamp News Most Influential Philatelists, published in 2022.

The design features a depiction of the only known photograph of Shadd and a reproduction of the masthead of Shadd’s newspaper, the Provincial Freeman.

Effective April 1, Marian Mills will replace Scott Tiffney as librarian and director of information services for the American Philatelic Research Library.

Only 85.4 percent of first-class mail had been delivered on time during the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, as measured against the USPS service standard, the USPS said.

The souvenir sheet had to be ordered on the internet, meaning that only collectors were likely to go to the trouble of requesting one.

The 39¢ and 41¢ envelopes met the first-class postage rate for a little more than a year after they were released. The 42¢ envelope met the first-class postage rate for less than a year.

A first-day ceremony program for the Saul Bellow stamp will be available at the event.

These pieces of card stock are created for all new issues and are viewed as waste or recycling by postal employees.

European countries represented in the sale include Austria, Germany and colonies, Italy and colonies, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Portugal and colonies, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

The Armstrong post office endures, even though it was officially shuttered by the USPS on Nov. 4, 2011.