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Stamps with glow-in-the-dark ink mark the 50th anniversary of the National Parks Development Committee, the Philippine Postal Corp. said Monday in a post on its website. More: continued here

Stamps highly collectible but most not valuableMid Columbia Tri City HeraldA. A friend gifted me this older book of foreign postage stamps. They all seem to have been used and canceled. I think many date to the 1940s and before. Written in German on the first page is that this was a birthday present to…

CNBC.com First-class stamps to cost 49 cents as of Jan. 26Petoskey News-ReviewRegulators on Tuesday approved a temporary price hike of 3 cents for a first-class stamp, bringing the charge to 49 cents a letter in an effort to help the Postal Service recover from severe mail decreases brought on by the 2008 economic downturn.USPS seeks…

In this combination of two 2013 photos released by the United States Postal Service, a reissue of two versions of the famous “Inverted Jenny” postage stamp is shown. The original 1918 stamp was printed with the upside-down bi-plane by mistake. More: continued here

Inquirer.net Glow-in-the-dark stamps mark parks devt body's 50th anniversaryGMA NewsStamps with glow-in-the-dark ink mark the 50th anniversary of the National Parks Development Committee, the Philippine Postal Corp. said Monday in a post on its website. PhlPost said it started issuing the P20-denomination stamps last Dec. 5, and will …PHLPost releases Year of the Horse stampsInquirer.netHorse stamps…

Stamp-price hike to 49 cents won't bother some in regionSentinel and EnterpriseAda Rodriguez of Leominster said her family lives all over the country and in Puerto Rico. She speaks to them often on the phone, but said she's still sending them mail almost constantly. She said she buys her mother the rolls of 100 stamps…

CNBC.com Harry Potter stamp riles Postal Service panel, traditional stampChicago Daily HeraldWASHINGTON — For more than half a century, a committee of cultural heavyweights has met behind closed doors, its deliberations kept secret, weighing the faces and images of Americana worthy of gracing U.S. postage stamps. While its rulings have been …USPS seeks increase in cost…

ABC Action News Corrected 'inverted Jenny' stamps sheet discovered at New York post officeABC Action NewsArt Van Riper bought the stamps in Waverly, N.Y., after reading that the United States Postal Service had printed a new batch of inverted Jenny stamps celebrating the 95-year-old edition that, by mistake, featured an upside-down biplane. He also read…

For more than half a century, a committee of cultural heavyweights has met behind closed doors, its deliberations kept secret, weighing the faces and images of Americana worthy of gracing U.S. postage stamps. While its rulings have been advisory, they long carried the weight of writ. On Tuesday, the U.S. Postal Service is scheduled to…