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Stamps may go up to 46 cents (Video)
The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday proposed a 2-cent increase in the price of a first-class postage stamp to 46 cents. If approved, the change would go into effect Jan.2, 2011. The proposed rate hike underscores the deep financial hole the Postal Service is currently in, with a $7 billion deficit projected for next year. Complicating the situation is the deep decline in mail being sent. In 2009, t
New stamps honour WWII heroes
A man and his two sisters recreate the moment they fled as child war evacuees as a stamp collection marking the Blitz is launched. John Dawson, Barbara Southard and Rosemary Brett were photographed in 1941 huddling together at London's King's Cross station before being put on a train. The children, each wearing an identity tag, had already endured months of the World War II air attack by Hitler's
Rare Audrey Hepburn stamp sells for big money
A rare German stamp depicting Audrey Hepburn with a cigarette holder, an image from the 1961 movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's," has been sold for 67,000 Euros (about $94,000) by a Berlin auction house. Germany had planned to issue 14 million copies of the stamp in 2001. Instead, it had to destroy them because the family of the actress did not approve of her image being used on the stamp. Just a handf
