When the United States Post Office issued the first federal stamps 150 years ago ... some Americans clung to their old stampless ways. In 1855 Congress finally passed a law making the use of ...

"She always wanted a stamp. The only thing she ever talked about was the United States stamp," her agent Jeff Witjas told ...

followed by the rise of the Third Reich (when swastikas began to appear on postage). Stamps labeled “Philippine Islands, United States of America” recall the period of American control there ...

In 1775, before the Declaration of Independence was even signed, the Continental Congress turned the Constitutional Post into the Post Office of the United States, whose operations became the ...