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From Cub to Eagle, the world of scouting is being honored with its own U.S. postage stamp.
The price of first-class stamps will not go up next year.
A collection of more than 3,000 inverted stamps has sold at auction in New York for more than $5 million.
A rare Abraham Lincoln stamp that was stolen from Indiana in 1967 and surfaced 39 years later in Chicago has sold at auction for more than $430,000.
A rare stamp portraying movie star Audrey Hepburn smoking sold for euro67,000 ($93,800) at an auction in Germany on Tuesday.
A rare Abraham Lincoln stamp that was stolen from an Indiana collector in 1967 and surfaced 39 years later in Chicago will be sold at auction in New York next month.
"The Simpsons" now has the U.S. government's stamp of approval.
The Israeli postal service has issued a dozen special stamps marking the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the Holy Land.
A Georgia man's collection of more than 10,000 Abraham Lincoln stamps has sold at auction in New York City for a total of nearly $2 million.
"Ill-fated and mysterious man! Bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination," wrote Edgar Alan Poe in "The Assignation." The melancholy poet, master of merriment and terror, could have been writing about himself.
The lunar new year stamp marking the Year of the Ox goes on sale Thursday, perhaps a special event for President-elect Barack Obama.
A rare 1868 U.S. postage stamp has sold for more than $1 million at a New York City auction.
Alzheimer's is a frightening possibility that takes a toll on both the victims and their families.
Doobie-postage-due. What were the chances ... we'd be seeing Frank Sinatra on a U.S. postage stamp?
Frank Sinatra competed against 50,000 others — and won.
Iran issued a stamp Monday in commemoration of a top Hezbollah commander wanted by the U.S. who was killed in a car bombing in Syria last month, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of the classic tale "The Yearling," will be honored with a commemorative postage stamp on Thursday.
One of the most famously flawed stamps in U.S. history sold for $825,000 to a New York man who bought it slightly cheaper than the record price another "Inverted Jenny" copy fetched at auction last month.
Ol' Blue Eyes will get his own postage stamp next spring. The stamp commemorating Frank Sinatra was announced Wednesday by Postmaster General John Potter, who called the crooner "an extraordinary entertainer whose life and work left an indelible impression on American culture."
A stamp honoring Jimmy Stewart will be released Friday by the U.S. Postal Service at ceremonies in Indiana, Pa., and Hollywood, Calif.
An image of the Liberty Bell, an icon of American freedom and independence, will adorn the Postal Service's new forever stamp.
Schoolgirl watches in horror as yob stamps on her puppy's head and kills itA teenage girl watched in horror after a yob killed her ten-week-old puppy by stamping on its head. April Alderton, 15, let her Jack Russell Sandy approach three teenage boys wearing hooded tops when one of them lashed out and stamped on the animal's head.
Sculptor Sues Postal Service Over Stamp With Photo Of His SculptureWelcome to the "ownership" and "entitlement" society, where people feel that you can't do anything without paying everyone. The latest such example is a lawsuit against the US Postal Service over a recent stamp that is a photo of part of the Korean War Memorial in Washington DC.
Stamp prices to go up 2-cents in May -The post office will get an extra 2-cents worth when you mail a letter starting in May. The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that the price of a first-class stamp will rise to 44 cents on May 11.
NPR: Price of Stamps Rising in May· The cost of a first-class postage stamp is going up a penny, starting May 12. To ease the pain the Postal Service is encouraging people to buy "Forever Stamps" — stamps bought at the current price that still work when the cost goes up.
Third Purple Heart stamp unveiledFORT WORTH -- Beneath a gunmetal gray sky, the Postal Service unveiled another version of the Purple Heart stamp Friday with the help of a dozen men who earned one.The local dedication of the 41-cent stamp -- the third time the Postal Service has produced it -- came on the 75th a …
Many years ago we wrote all over the globe letters. I personally have been in pens to Japan, France and Zaire. So there around 1984 I got Formula 1 calendar for next coming year and I immediately sent back to Japan calendar with pictures of my country.
Artwork of the Day - September 16, 2007Bright colourful straws on a postage stamp.
Is it or isn't it? Absentee ballot had stamp that could be rare, valuable 'Inverted Jenny'How much is one vote worth? In the case of an absentee ballot and an antique stamp, it could be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
New School Fundraiser- Kids' Art StampsArtStamps, a Connecticut company, has begun converting student art into U.S. postage -- marking the first time that children's color drawings will appear on real 39-cent stamps.
The Queen's head removed from postage stampsRoyal Mail launches downloadable e-stamps today - but the headline in the Daily Mail doesn't seem to see that as important: The Queen's head has been banished from a new hi-tech version of the stamp that is launched today by the Royal Mail.
Netherlands Debuts First "Video" StampThe Netherlands has issued the first lenticular "video" stamp, using a special printing process on a stamp-sized piece of plastic.
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