The Wreck & Crash Mail Society is devoted to the collecting and study of all aspects of delayed and/or damaged mail and interrupted mail services.

Like many youngsters in England during the 1940s and 1950s, young John Lennon collected stamps.

Known as the Grand Dame of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis (1916-2006) developed a following of celebrity diners, and wrote a series of cookbooks that shared her love of fresh ingredients and flavorful meals.

Stamps will take you places. Even if your journey is taken while sitting in your favorite chair and placing stamps from faraway countries into your albums.

Michael Laurence had been a fairly serious kid collector of U.S. stamps, but wasn’t the show-going type until his first stamp show in New York in 1956.

No matter what piques your stamp-collecting interest, there is bound to be some group meeting here for you.

There will be plenty of opportunities to acquire free stuff at World Stamp Show-NY 2016. Let’s take a look at a few of the notable freebies.

A recent feature from the Chicago Reader profiles Michael Hernandez de Luna, an artist who has been creating his own fraudulent stamps for over 20 years.

Arizona photographer Tom Bean captured an image of sunset at Reid Inlet in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. His photograph will appear on a U.S. forever stamp in June.

What should you take to the show, besides yourself (and your family) and money to spend? First, you need some of the basic tools of the hobby.

Traveling to major stamp destinations around the world was a very rewarding experience, but there is truth in the old saying: There’s no place like home!

American legislator and secretary of state Henry Clay (1777-1852) was a key figure in the decision to engage the British in the War of 1812. He ran for president three times, representing three political parties.

A forever stamp commemorating Everglades National Park is one of 16 stamps that will be issued June 2 in a set celebrating the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.

Canada Post continues to reveal new stamps with a Star Trek theme. The latest permanent-rate stamp shown pictures actor Leonard Nimoy in his role as first officer Spock.

Dean Acheson served in the State Department under presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman; he was named secretary of state in 1949.

Frances Perkins was the first woman appointed to a position in the U.S. Cabinet, serving as secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945. The headquarters of the Department of Labor is named in her honor.

Singer and actor Paul Robeson (1898-1976) became internationally famous, both as an entertainer and as an important voice in the struggle for human rights.

In a recent letter to Linn’s, James Paton asks, “Do we have to wait for the recalcitrant U.S. Congress to act before I can sell my interesting Cuban covers that were sent through the mails over 70 years ago?” Paton wants to sell on the eBay Internet auction site a 1943 censored cover from Havana to the United States. The short answer is “Yes.” The embargo is still in effect, and eBay, like any other business, must abide by the embargo.

Interested collectors and exhibitors are now able to view and comment on revised guidelines for judging philatelic exhibits at American Philatelic Society World Series of Philately National shows. Linn's reported in early April that those guidelines were under discussion by the APS Committee on Accreditation of National Exhibitions and Judges (CANEJ).

If you love British definitive stamps of the 1880s through the 1920s but can’t afford them in unused hinged condition or mint never hinged condition, you can find many of them affordably priced overprinted and surcharged for use in British post offices in the Ottoman Empire. Great Britain was one of several countries given permission to operate its own post offices within the Sublime Porte.