Bird lovers are expected to flock to their Post Offices now that the Postal Service is celebrating North America’s largest swallow by issuing the Purple Martin First-Class Mail Forever Stamped ...

Walter Mondale, former vice president of the United States and U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and his wife Joan, member of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, will lead a special first day of sale ...

When I started submitting my creative work for publication in 1995, it was a paper-heavy process. Everything had to be printed and assembled according to each particular publisher’s or producer’s ...

The envelope was sent twice: once on May 2, 1840, and again on May 4, 1840. Sotheby's The first known piece of mail sent with a prepaid, adhesive stamp could sell for as much as $2.5 million.

The first ever envelope sent using a postage stamp went up for auction for almost £2million - but no-one bought it. The envelope, from 1840, was sent using the famous Penny Black stamp, the first of ...

136 years after a Boston ice exporter mailed it to his Calcutta office, the stamp and envelope ''Ice House Cover'' will be up for grabs in a heated auction in New York. WASHINGTON: When the letter ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- The late African-American author Richard Wright is among those being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with new stamps this year. Wright, who died in 1960 at age 52, will ...