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Museum director seeking to honor Memorial Day supporters with stampsThe Southern30 to the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C., for a block of stamps to be issued honoring General John A. Logan and others involved in the creation of Memorial Day. If approved, the stamps will be issued in …

BBC News The real reason to start collecting stampsBBC NewsAlthough the advent of email has hurt postal mail service in recent years, stamp collecting remains a passionate hobby as well as a valuable business and investment strategy in many countries. Billions of stamps have been issued since the British Penny … …

A century and a half after the end of the Civil War, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., last week opened an exhibition of stamps and mail that tell the everyday story of slavery, abolition and civil rights. More: continued here

Beacon Review Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, MostlyHuffington PostWASHINGTON — Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps. "I come from a town …Who Gets …

The price of first and second class stamps is to increase by 1p each to 63p and 54p from March 30, the Royal Mail announced today. A general view of first and second-class stamps. More: continued here

Postage stamps to go up by 1p, charity warns of effect on the elderlyExpress.co.ukFIRST and second class stamps are to rise by 1p each to 63p and 54p from March 30. Published: 00:01, Sat, February 28, 2015. Postage stamps GETTY. The price of postage stamps has been steadily rising in …

MLive.com Woman hid drugs behind stamps in mail sent to husband at Saginaw County Jail …MLive.comSAGINAW, MI — Prosecutors allege a Huron County husband and wife conspired to have an opiate sent to the husband while he was in the Saginaw County Jail. They allege the woman hid the drug …

Beacon Review Food stamp program under GOP microscopeThe CT MirrorWashington – Congressional Republicans this week began a comprehensive review of the food stamp program to determine what is working – and to eliminate what in their view is not – a move that could impact thousands of recipients in Connecticut.Are …

African American history, as seen through letters and stampsWashington PostAspects covered in the exhibition: slavery, abolition, Civil War, Reconstruction, segregation, the civil rights movement and Black Heritage stamp series. 4 million. Estimated number of enslaved people in America at the beginning of the Civil War. The … More: continued here

A National Postal Museum exhibition includes letters carried by slaves and civil-rights correspondence. More: continued here