The South China Sea is LIT

The South China Sea is a tinderbox in which one spark threatens to set off World War Three. Bad news: the stamp collectors are getting involved

Punk chats to the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada

You Canuck be serious! Punk chatted to the RSPC on the topic of Online Philately. Here are the cheat notes

Bodacious! It’s Pop Culture IV: The ’80s

The 1980s are the latest decade to feature in Jersey's pop culture series, with stamps that remind you to never look back

When history is Cook’d, Black Stories Matter

Recent Australian stamps speak volumes about an urgent global issue. So why wonโ€™t you see them on your mail?

Stampex International 2020 virtually a hit

There have been a lot of online stamp events in 2020, but Stampex International took โ€˜virtualโ€™ to a whole new level

Schnitz-canned! How Austria trolled Brexit Britain

Austria Post bids the UK so long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

Summer Lovin’

The Summer of Stamps leads a second wave of coronavirus-busting online innovations for stamp collectors

COVID-19 a shot in the arm for stamp collecting

Well, if youโ€™d asked me a few months back what was needed to give stamp collecting a kick up the backside, my first answer would probably not have been โ€œa global supervirus pandemic.โ€ But it sure feels like thatโ€™s what has happened.

Well-trained

I didn't plan to feature this stamp when it came out. But I've come to love one particular design element. It's probably not the one you think...

Are you self-excluding? Mail Art wants YOU!

Mail Art is the perfect project for the self-excluded, performing art to an audience of one

Putting the pieces back together

A few months back, I caught sight of a post headed 'A slightly different way to keep and display stamps'. You never know what lies ahead with that sort of subject line. Has some idiot just licked a bunch of Inverted Jenny plane stamps onto their cat?

The Shape of… Who?

A world stamp collection is heading to auction with a very surprising name on the front cover

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