These days it seems as if we can find anything with a click. Old buddies from high school, aerial photos of the street where you used to live, phone numbers for your old flame - it's all available ...
Those first stamps made it easier than ever to communicate, but early on people weren't quite sure how to use them.
It COST the equivalent of just four pence to post it to Edinburgh 170 years ago, but a rare Victorian envelope has now sold at auction in London for £36,000. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...
The unique Mulready letter sheet combined with a Penny Black stamp features the first ever methods of pre-payments for post, introduced in May 1840. With an upper estimate of $2.5million (£2million), ...
The traditional first-class stamp is being phased out and replaced with so-called "forever" stamps. The United States Postal Service is expected to announce on Jan. 14 that all first-class stamps for ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
If you’ve ever wondered how much postage to put on a greeting card labeled “additional postage required,” the answer has arrived. The U.S. Postal Service and greeting card companies this week ...