THIS OCTOBER, bats are harbingers of Halloween and National Stamp Collecting Month. The flying mammals are sticking to envelopes, flitting through mailboxes, spreading the word: Stamp collecting is ...

Get your stamp book ready for the ultimate addition. This summer, Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries is offering the William H. Gross Collection of United States Stamps. The organization is ...

Long before Sally Ride left her stamp on space history, the famed astronaut discovered a passion for collecting space stamps. Ride, who became the first American woman to fly in space 35 years ago ...

Who knew that the little inked souvenirs that mark unforgettable travel moments in time could invoke so much emotion?

The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a "forever" stamp collection featuring illustrations from the 1962 children's book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. If you went to the post office this past week, ...

My first experience with food stamps was as a kid, growing up in Peekskill, New York. In the grocery store, my mother would give my sister and me the glance, which meant not to stare at the people in ...

Beatles fans and philatelists alike will be able to view John Lennon‘s childhood stamp collection during the World Stamp Show in New York City, May 28th through June 4th. According to the Smithsonian ...

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This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Now ubiquitous in many of Japan’s 9,000 stations, the first eki stamp appeared in 1931 at Fukui station near the Sea of Japan coast, ...