If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I found this really interesting post over at Mavi Boncuk about a postcard sent from Constantinople to the US from a US expatriate living in the region in 1916. The card is very well researched and the post is […]
Today celebrates the 133rd anniversary of the forming of the Universal Postal Union in 1874. For those of you that collect Postal History, this is indeed a remarkable anniversary, as the formation of the UPU standardized rates between signatory countries enough so that we can make sense of the mails from more than 100 years […]
Dead Post Office (DPO) collecting is a popular postal history sideline. This is where folks look for instance of letters and postcards that were postmarked in post offices that no longer exist. Nearly every state and county in the US has some instance of a post office that is no longer in existence. Some of […]
Here is a nice story about one Joe Crosby, a postal history collector in Edmond, Oklahoma. In this particular article, the author, James Coburn, takes us through Mr. Crosby’s research of a particular cover that was sent by a former UCO football coach. Coburn does an admirable job of joining the worlds of history and […]
 APS # 204320 Visit the American Philatelic Society Website at www.stamps.org |
 PSS # 7600 Visit the Precancel Stamp Society Website at www.precancels.com |