Philatelic Tidbits - Stamp Collecting News and Opinions

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Kuala Lumpur Metro, a newspaper and website out of Malysia, carries a story today about what philatelists like to collect. This one is specifically about people who like to collect “imperfect” stamps like the one below. Click here to […]

Bari Zaki, a lady entrepreneur in Chicago, managed to get some free advertising from the Chicago Tribune last weekend (registration required). Her business is to put old stamps on old envelopes, call them art, and wait for the money to roll in. Now why didn’t I think of that!! As Dick Sine says in the […]

The electioneering is starting to get interesting over the coming election of the APS’ Board of Vice Presidents. There are questions of ethical implications being discussed around and about one of the candidates, Professor Steve Washburn. Tune in to the excitement over at Virtual Stamp Club here and here and here.

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Tomorrow, April 28, the USPS issues another in it’s “Communists on Stamps” series tomorrow with the stamp celebrating the accomplishments of lyricist “Yip” Harburg. Harburg is famous for penning the lyrics to some of the most recognizable songs in America, including “Brother, can you Spare a Dime” and “Over the Rainbow”. He is also famous […]

As a followup to yesterday’s story, the Mercury News has a story with more details today. According to yesterday’s story, it wasn’t at all clear that a contractor was selected yet. It now seems that Stamps.com is the company that is being allowed to do this new test. It appears that the new test will […]