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.

This is your chance to vent on the progressive income tax, which has its roots in the Civil War.

The case involves a USPS truck driver who was arrested after entering a Tampa, Fla., postal facility with a pistol in a fanny pack.

The new nondenominated ($1.16) commemorative will satisfy the rate for a domestic 3-ounce letter that went into effect Jan. 21, along with a host of other postal rate increases.

The show expects to have more than 20 dealers offering postage and revenue stamps, covers, postal history, stamp collecting supplies and philatelic literature.

The Scott editors determined that the new error will be listed in the 2025 Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers.

The 10 nondenominated (68¢) Underground Railroad stamps will be issued March 9 in a pane of 20.

Also this week, assisting a collector with identifying some mysterious Spanish stamps, and a fascinating look at the philatelic aspects of mailed maritime menus.

Bon has accumulated, by his own reckoning, five wives, eight ladies’ wig shops, 35 automobiles and half a million United States postage stamps.

In the Scott catalogs, the stamps of independent East Timor are listed under and numbered consecutively following those of Timor, the former Portuguese colony.

Did the United States 1943 Christmas seal picture a living person?