The California State Fair mascot, Poppy the Bear, receives a special birthday shout-out on the pictorial postmark shown nearby.

American First Day Cover Society president Lloyd de Vries designated Saturday, Aug. 17, as National Cachetmakers Day in a July 11 presidential proclamation.

Recorded on Sept. 11, 2007, episode 5,362 was U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Wendell Watkins’ quiz show debut and, as it turned out, his swan song.

Alvin is a manned deep-diving vehicle operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

Recipients of the sustainability award were selected from a pool of more than 140 nominees and represent domestic and international facilities or projects spanning 10 federal agencies.

Letter carriers Shakeara and Taishonna Stewart have been recognized as bona fide U.S. Postal Service heroes for rescuing Rebecca Mitchell after Mitchell fell and broke her leg.

Cheng works as the head of design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The last of the celibate, communal, consecrated Shakers was a teenage Methodist in Massachusetts when he received a letter that changed his life.

New U.S. Postal Service electric vehicles are starting to roll out nationwide, so something would have to happen to the other, older vehicles.

A member of Historic Hotels of America since 2007, Wentworth by the Sea was built in the 1870s.

The 21st century has brought great changes to the way that the Navajo and other isolated Native Americans cast their ballots.

What initially seemed like a minor burglary evolved into a major incident involving widespread abuses of power by members of the Nixon administration.

Baring is an agricultural community with a population of 125 located in Knox County in what the locals call NEMO, northeast Missouri.

Tangherlini has been a member of the USPS board since May 2022, and his term expires in December 2027.

The grilled cheese postmark has been extended for 30 days.

Named after the first six letters on the keyboard’s top row, QWERTY quickly became the standard layout for typewriters and later for computer keyboards.

The National Postal Museum presents these awards every two years to recognize scholarship on the history of the American postal system.

It turns out that letter carrier J.T. Wilkey and the person who left the notes in the mailbox had chatted nearly every day.

A significant deterioration in service performance is the primary source of complaints to the Postal Regulatory Commission from members of Congress and the general public, Kubayanda said.

Law enforcement documents illuminated a massive trans-Pacific fraud and forgery scheme that duped the United States Postal Service into accepting, sorting, transporting and delivering more than 34 million parcels franked with duplicate, fake, worthless and previously used postage labels.