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 was first created in 1818.” Reporter Carrie Schmelkin pens, “In addition to her daily tasks of overseeing retail windows, customer services and day-to-day operations,... 

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 collector who says she “never met a stamp she didn’t like,” is the current chair of the New Initiatives Committee on the Smithsonian National... 

“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 a hundred years ago. “The resulting impact was horrific. It left locomotives, train cars and wreckage strewn over the countryside.... 

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 pavilions at Epcot,® careful observers will discover a variety of mailboxes scattered around the many park attractions.” According to Pat, “If you begin... 

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 one there realized that Albright-Knox Art Gallery owned four of the 10 featured paintings.” The printer, Ashton Potter, the world’s largest... 

“James” writes on his Everyday Correspondence blog about visiting the lobby of National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. He points out that,”Originally the main post office serving the District, the museum building was designed in the Beaux Arts style, and was completed in 1914…On one side of the grand hallway are post office boxes, and on the other, mail windows where clerks would receive outgoing mail. And, in the... 

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 for the Postal Service and utilize its current retail infrastructure with its 36,000 retail outlets.’ Popular... 

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 Robert Z. Pearlman of CollectSpace.com, “McCall created the art for 21 space-themed U.S. postage stamps, ranging in subject from the moon... 

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 well as bomb ravaged London through the eyes of three American women. Emma goes on to pen, “For example, did you know how graphic and devastating bomb explosions over a populated... 

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 special situations (e.g. a shortage of stamps). The most recent of them was over 60 years ago, so genuine bisects are usually rare and valuable. There are even trisects! Note that a bisect “off... 

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 abound; dispelling these myths will show that we can continue to deliver the mail.” He goes on to list, and respond to, what he considers... 

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 Alli, a retired U.S. Marine and an amateur photographer…took hundreds of photographs of the memorial on a snowy day and eventually produced a single, haunting photo. In... 

A tip of the tongs to Round-Up reader Richard Cannata of New York who 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, but no one has ever proven it, until now.” Going for the “Buy It Now” price of $25,000, it is “… very first and only known, P.F. Certified, Graded Fine 70,... 

Wear a piece of history with postage stamp jewelry from around the world! Anna Van Tuinen’s Dad collected stamps as a boy in the ’60s and she loved sorting through stamps with him when she was a kid. Now she’s making pendant necklaces using stamps from their collection. Anna can also custom design a necklace with one of your stamps if your prefer. An Inverted Jenny would look nice. Shown  Read More →

Shown above a photo by Sid Avery of movie star Yul Brynner. Taken in 1953, it appears Hollywood at Home: A Family Album 1950-1965 along with other celebrity photos. In Avery’s 2002 obitiuary The New York Times wrote, “Mr. Avery’s work in the 1950’s and 60’s was a departure from the glamorized, soft-focus portraits of an earlier Hollywood era when images of the stars were tightly controlled by the major studios. Mr....