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Daffy Duck, one of America’s much loved Looney Tunes characters, was honored with a commemorative postage stamp in April of 1999. At the time, Daffy joined his other Looney Tunes friends, Bugs Bunny and Sylvester and Tweety, as some of the top sellers in the USPS stamp selling history.Issuing the Looney Tunes postage stamps were not without some controversy though. Some opponents to the stamps thought that issuing them violated postal service policies because they thought the stamps …

The holidays are here and with such, so are the Christmas inspired postage stamps. Like in the United States, many countries around the world issue Christmas themed postage stamps each year. It is widely believed that Canada issued the first Christmas postage stamps in 1898, although they were not terribly festive looking. Those 2 cent stamps showed a map of the world with areas marked in red that were lands that belonged to the British Empire. The most “Christmas” thing about t …

America’s love with the different Disney characters should be of no surprise. Many of us have been fortunate enough to grow up vacationing at “the happiest place on earth”…Disneyland and Disney World. At the least, we have all been blessed with experiencing the fun movies that have been produced by the Walt Disney Company; which make us fall in love with the adorable characters. Every now and then the United States Postal Service teams up with Disney to create some special post …

Each October is designated “National Stamp Collecting Month” by the United States Postal Service. To help kick off the campaign in 2002, which is intended to get youth interested in stamp collecting, the USPS issued a set of stamps called “American Bats” which featured one of natures most feared and misunderstood creatures…bats. In particular in this set, bats that are found in North America. There are approximately 950 different species of bats worldwide and 45 can be found in …