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The Stamp Collecting Report, a 60-second weekly report by Lloyd de Vries, is heard weekends on many CBS RadioNetwork stations, including KNX Los Angeles, KCBS SanFrancisco and WWJ Detroit. To find out whether your local affiliate carries this feature, and when, contact the station's program director.
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First day covers are a specialty for many collectors. They often include postmarks that are special for the occasion and use envelopes with some decoration on them, which are called cachets.
The Postal Service has announced a stamp in Frank Sinatra's honor. Any way you look at it, the chairman of the board, Old Blue Eyes, is back -- if he was ever away.
Although it wasn't announced last August with the rest of next year's stamps, a Frank Sinatra stamp was in the works all along, says the Postal Service's Dave Failor.
It's the time of the year when some untrue stories about the postal service get more play than they should, so let's see if we can drive a stake through their hearts.
If there's a stamp collector on your list, it's TOUGH to choose a hobby-related gift, something he or she wants and doesn't already have. But here are some not-too-expensive suggestions that should please nearly everyone.
The president is a stamp collector -- the president of France, Nicholas Sarkozy. In a recent letter to the French federation of stamp societies, he describes himself as someone "who has a passion for philately".
A not-so-funny thing happened recently: My stamps stopped selling on eBay and everywhere else.
You'd think getting the top job in the Postal Service would be a a dream come true for a stamp collector. Not so for Benjamin Bailar.
When Peter Mastrangelo was hired as executive director of the American Philatelic Society, that nation's major stamp collecting organization, it was for his management skills, not his stamp savvy.
Definitive stamps aren't flashy, but they're the workhorses of the postal service stamp drawer. They're usually smaller and around much longer than commemoratives.
What pictures come to mind when you think of Minnesota? The Mississippi River? A bridge into Wisconsin? Well, that's what will be on next year's Minnesota Statehood stamp. Islands in the Mississippi at sunset, and the bridge at Winona.
Strong is Yoda in the Force ... and with mailers and stamp collectors. When the fifteen Star Wars stamps were issued last spring, an online poll chose Yoda to be the subject for a stand-alone stamp.
It happens all the time: Someone finds or inherits a stamp collection, comes up with an inflated idea of its value and suffers a severe letdown.
When someone famous and well-respected dies, the question inevitably arises, "Why have ANY waiting period?"
While part of the Postal Service loves collectors and the stamps we buy, it seems as if other parts hate us.
Iran issued a stamp commemorating "Peaceful Nuclear Energy." Is the stamp propaganda? Of course it is. But then, aren't most stamps?
The 2008 U.S. stamp program is announced: Lunar New Year, flags, Bette Davis and more...
Most stamp collectors have several collections or specialties. When they get stuck in one, the concentrate on another for awhile.
The four Disney Magic stamps issued recently show the title characters -- and their friends -- from Aladdin, Peter Pan, and Dumbo, as well as Mickey Mouse.
Actor Jimmy Stewart is the subject of this year's Legends of Hollywood stamp, and he really WAS "easy to love".
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