Collecting postmarks is an easy way to get involved in stamp collecting. The tools needed are your daily mail, file boxes or notebooks and scissors. Postmarks are collected in all sizes and shapes, ...

Have you ever received a letter? Or had a pen pal from overseas? If you look at the envelopes you get in the mail, you can observe various details. You can instantly spot the stamp, the recipient’s ...

MANATEE COUNTY -- Mark Gollnick once drove from Lake City, Fla., to Lake City, Tenn., stopping at every post office along U.S. 441 to get a postmark. After four decades of collecting postmarks, the 56 ...

With his 11-year-old stepdaughter at his side Thursday afternoon, Mark Gollnick rummaged through a pile of timeworn letters resting on a round table. Gollnick, 50, of Sarasota, Fla., was looking for ...

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night may prevent the delivery of mail, but COVID-19 did disrupt the gathering of postmark collectors to the Capital City in 2020. The 59th annual Post Mark ...

There is another phase to rural free delivery, the subject of last week's column, that has some stamp and cover collectors on the lookout on a regular basis. That's the "R.F.D." postmark found on mail ...

BELLEVUE - Visitors to the National Postmark Museum can name any city in the nation, and it is possible a volunteer can show them a postmark from that town. The museum, on the grounds of Historic Lyme ...