It occurred to me recently that while I've expended plenty of ink on coins over these last months, I've give short shrift to stamps. In fact, there was a time when stamps nearly rivaled coins in terms ...

Collecting stamps can be as easy as pulling a stamp off an envelope delivered by mail or as complicated as studying historical events to find a particularly rare or coveted one. Whatever the interest, ...

Released during Vesak 2026, a new book uses postage stamps and postal cards from more than 80 countries to retrace the life of Gautama Buddha.

Hunkering at home in 2020 gave me time to sort through the family archive, which is the name I gave to the collections and accumulations of things left by departed family members — mostly letters, ...

Boston is hosting the international "Super Bowl" of stamp collecting Memorial Day Weekend and it's free to check out.

John Leszak got hooked when he was a little kid, like most stamp collectors. In his case, you might say there was a bit of divine intervention. “The Sisters of Mercy got me started in 1963,” Leszak ...

Jennifer Nelson writes about all things money--personal finance, investing, saving, credit cards and insurance for numerous publications including AARP, Next Avenue, Credit Karma, Real SImple, Citi ...

Many collectors today wonder if postage stamps are good investments. While some rare and historical stamps have increased in value over the years, the market can be very unpredictable. Factors like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re also a budding philatelist (stamp collector), you know the joy of collecting stamps already. Travelers around the world ...