Harry Jackim's lifelong obsession with stamps began that day in 1938 when the letter came from his Aunt Polliana. The letter was posted from a Soviet gulag in Siberia, but what intrigued 10-year ...

WASHINGTON — If you need to buy a stamp for sending a letter, the price just went up by about a nickel. The U.S. Postal Service has enacted a rate hike on the cost of a first-class stamp, from 73 ...

During the shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture — which administers food stamps, known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — issued the February benefits early ...

Soon independent companies entered the business and would sell the stamps to merchants, which enabled businesses to offer a variety of items for redemption beyond the merchants’ ware. Unnamed trading ...

Some in GOP fear food stamp cuts Besides Medicaid, some Republicans are rankled by another push to cut spending from a safety net program for low-income Americans – food stamps, according to ...