Have you ever received a letter? Or had a pen pal from overseas? If you look at the envelopes you get in the mail, you can observe various details. You can instantly spot the stamp, the recipient’s ...

Collecting postmarks is an easy way to get involved in stamp collecting. The tools needed are your daily mail, file boxes or notebooks and scissors. Postmarks are collected in all sizes and shapes, ...

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night may prevent the delivery of mail, but COVID-19 did disrupt the gathering of postmark collectors to the Capital City in 2020. The 59th annual Post Mark ...

MANATEE COUNTY -- Mark Gollnick once drove from Lake City, Fla., to Lake City, Tenn., stopping at every post office along U.S. 441 to get a postmark. After four decades of collecting postmarks, the 56 ...

There is another phase to rural free delivery, the subject of last week's column, that has some stamp and cover collectors on the lookout on a regular basis. That's the "R.F.D." postmark found on mail ...

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The first thing you should know about postmark collectors is this: They are people just like us. Well, maybe not just like us. "One time somebody compiled a list of 10 reasons ...