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Stamp Thieves Jailed

Mar 12, 2010 11:52am

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Britain’s Sun newspaper reports a young woman has been jailed for “secretly plundering one of Britain’s biggest stamp collections — to blow it on drugs.” According to reporter Richard Moriarty, the woman along with her boyfriend stole her stepfather’s collection while he was in the hospital....

FDR’s Grandson Visits National Postal Museum

Mar 11, 2010 2:02pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Last month, Curtis Roosevelt toured Delivering Hope: FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression at the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. with Director Allen Kane and exhibit curators Cheryl Ganz and Daniel Piazza. According to a post on the NPM website, “The oldest grandson of...

Connecticut Postmaster Starts “Philatelic Wednesdays”

Mar 11, 2010 2:00pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog An article on the New Canaan, Connecticut Advertiser website leads with, “With a quarter of a century of United States Postal Service experience under her belt, Nancy Cornelio is ready to be the first female postmaster at the New Canaan post office since the position...

Janet Klug Appointed to Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee

Mar 9, 2010 7:50am

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Postmaster General John Potter announced yesterday the appointment of Janet Klug, the former president and current member of the board of directors of the American Philatelic Society, to serve on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC). According to a USPS press release, Janet, a lifelong stamp...

Postcards Document Early Train Wreck

Mar 9, 2010 7:49am

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog “Plane crashes are today’s headlines, but train wrecks were the major newsmakers 100 years ago,” writes reporter Matt Surtel on New York’s Daily News website. According to Matt, local resident Mark Milcarek came across four old postcards that documented a train wreck that happened more than...

The Happiest Mail Boxes on Earth

Mar 9, 2010 7:48am

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Patricia Raynor writes on the National Postal Museum blog, “If your vacation destination this year happens to include Walt Disney World® in Florida, try playing the game of who can spot the most mailboxes. From Main Street U.S.A. in the Magic Kingdom® to the international...

A Printer, a Gallery and the New Abstract Expressionism Stamps

Mar 9, 2010 6:01am

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Tom Buckham writes in the Buffalo News about a “serendipitous convergence of business and art.” Tom reports, “When Ashton Potter USA Ltd. in Amherst bid last year on a contract to print a series of postage stamps commemorating the art movement known as abstract expressionism, no...

USPS Considers Post Office Lottery

Mar 4, 2010 1:46pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog A post on the USPS Inspector General’s blog asks, “Could Longer Lines Be Coming to Your Local Post Office…Lottery Lines?” It goes on to report, “According to a representative on the Postal Regulatory Commission’s staff, a Postal Service-run lottery ‘could offer the potential for substantial profits...

Space Stamp Artist Robert McCall, 90, Dies

Mar 3, 2010 3:47pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Space.com reports, “Artist Robert McCall, whose visions of the past, present, and future of space exploration have graced U.S. postage stamps, NASA mission patches, and the walls of the Smithsonian, died on Friday of a heart attack in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 90.” According to reporter...

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Mar 2, 2010 1:15pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Emma Kat Richardson writes on the Bookslut website, “War is hell, and Sarah Blake, author of the new novel The Postmistress, has 101 ways to prove it.” The story takes place in 1940 and tells the story of events in pre-World War II New Hampshire as...

Bisected Stamps

Mar 1, 2010 7:21pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog According to the Alphabetilately website, “A bisect is a postage stamp cut in half (usually diagonally), and used to pay half its face value, e.g. half a ten cent stamp to pay five. The practice has been permitted (in the US at least) only for...

Five Myths About the U.S. Postal Service

Mar 1, 2010 7:21pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Postmaster General John Potter writes in today’s Washington Post, “For 235 years, the U.S. Postal Service has delivered your mail in snow, rain and dark of night. However, tough market conditions are creating new challenges for our business. Misconceptions about the future of our enterprise...

Korean War Memorial Sculptor Wins Stamp Photo Appeal

Mar 1, 2010 7:20pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog The Am Law Daily reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled, 2-1, in favor of 85-year-old sculptor Frank Gaylord regarding a photo of his Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. that was used on a U.S. postage stamp. According to the article, “John...

Mail Delivery 12 Times a Day!?!

Mar 1, 2010 7:19pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Randall Stross writes in the New York Times, “In Victorian London, though service wasn’t 24/7, it was close to 12/6. Home delivery routes would go by every house 12 times a day — yes, 12. In 1889, for example, the first delivery began about 7:30...

“The King Arthur” of Stamps

Feb 25, 2010 1:25pm

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog A tip of the tongs to Round-Up reader Richard Cannata of New York! Richard sends along a listing on eBay about a 117-year-old mystery stamp that is being hailed as “The King Arthur” of stamps because “supposedly all of the experts have heard of the legend,...