"The Stamp Collecting Report," a 60-second weekly report
by Lloyd de Vries, is heard weekends on many CBS Radio
Network stations, including KNX Los Angeles, KCBS San
Francisco and WWJ Detroit. To find out whether your local
affiliate carries this feature, and when, contact the
station's program director.
Scripts and audio cassettes of these programs are also
available through the American Philatelic Research Library
in State College, PA.
[www.stamps.org]
Article Index
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2008:
Jul 4 The Definitive Word On Stamps
Jun 27 Flags at Half-Mast
Jun 20 Dumb and Dumber
Jun 13 Mercury Rising
Jun 6 Rough Handling
May 30 Travels with My Stamps
May 23 Stamps For Relief
May 16 Swooning over Sinatra
May 9 The Real Thing
May 2 The Case of the Bogus Bodega Stamps
Apr 25 We're laughing at you
Apr 18 The Devil Is In The Details
Apr 11 France gets a new figurehead
Apr 4 Go local
Mar 28 So many stamps, so little time
Mar 21 Hands Across the Sea
Mar 14 Hunting for J-F-K
Mar 07 Boxing Match
Feb 29 Youth Movement
Feb 22 Addressing the new rates
Feb 15 Rejiggering the schedule
Feb 8 Getting Soaked
Feb 1 Black History on Stamps
Jan 25 Raising False Hopes
Jan 18 Oops
Jan 11 Flawed Designs
Jan 4 Frank or Elvis?
2007:
Dec 28 A look ahead
Dec 21 Being First
Dec 14 Old Blue Eyes Is Back
Dec 7 The Chairman of the Board
Nov 30 Annual urban legends
Nov 23 Tis the Season
Nov 16 From the top
Nov 11 Gas up, stamps down
Nov 2 What's In A Name?
Oct 26 Battlefield Conversion
Oct 19 Defining Definitives
Oct 12 A Bridge Too Far
Oct 5 Popular This Stamp Will Be
Sep 28 A Little Knowledge
Sep 21 O-J Makes The Case
Sep 14 A Love-Hate Relationship
Sep 7 Promotion Or Propaganda?
Aug 31 Flags, Culture and Great Americans
Aug 24 A Cut Above
Aug 17 A touch of magic
Aug 10 It WAS a wonderful life
Aug 3 Prognostication
Jul 27 The Perennials
Jul 20 Your friendly neighborhood Super Heroes
Jul 13 Coast to Coast
Jul 6 How long is Forever?
Jun 29 Setting Limits
Jun 22 Beauty and the Feast
Jun 15 Surprise!
Jun 8 Around the World In Eighty Stamps
Jun 1 The Dark Side
May 25 Straight from the Ministry of Magic
May 18 A Pox On Pex
May 11 The Sound of Stamps
May 4 Not Yet Dead
Apr 27 Telling Wight From Wrong
Apr 20 When Does Forever Start?
Apr 13 Something For Everybody
Apr 6 A Decade of Stamps
Mar 30 Is there a stamp collector in the house?
Mar 23 May the stamps be with you
Mar 16 Scouting for stamps
Mar 9 Viva La Commercialism!
Mar 2 Mourning Dawns for Stamp Collecting
Feb 23 An Offer You CAN Refuse
Feb 16 Honest, Abe!
Feb 9 For the longest time
Feb 2 The Contenders
Jan 26 Dominoes from Spain
Jan 19 Under Protest
Jan 12 Six Degrees of Stamp-eration
Jan 5 Strange Scheduling
2006:
Dec 29 Fun With Numbers
Dec 22 The Year In Stamps
Dec 15 The Postal Service Delivers
Dec 8 Nice Try
Dec 1 Speculation Melts Away
Nov 24 Tis the Season
Nov 17 Seeking Approvals
Nov 10 Everywhere At Once
Nov 2 Cutting The Wait
Oct 27 A look back at next year
Oct 20 Pop Goes the Culture
Oct 13 Something different for Christmas
Oct 6 The Sounds of Silence
Sep 29 Let it snow, let it snow
Sep 22 Trickle-Down Economics
Sep 15 P.S. We Love Them
Sep 8 Delaying Tactics
Sep 1 Mixed Bag for 2007
Aug 25 Basic Economics
Aug 18 A Wonderful Life
Aug 11 Dust off the crystal ball
Aug 4 Rev up those engines!
Jul 28 Arago Arrives
Jul 21 Overlooked
Jul 14 Tongs, catalogues -- and computers
Jul 7 Postmaster's Prerogative
Jun 30 Northern Pride
Jun 23 A Feeling Of Fulfillment
Jun 16 Time Of Change
Jun 9 What a show!
Jun 2 From the top
May 26 What's in YOUR Attic?
May 20 On with the show!
May 12 From Way Up North To Tinseltown
May 5 For the kids
Apr 28 Making The Cut
Apr 21 Worth The Trip
Apr 15 The Stamps Heard Round The World
Apr 7 Nine Acres Of Stamps
Mar 31 A Stamp Sweet As Sugar
Mar 24 Who Gets What
Mar 17 Foreign Interests
Mar 10 Big Deal About Little Stamps
Mar 3 Ben and the Boxer
Feb 24 Good to the last drop
Feb 17 Perspective
Feb 10 Do It Yourself
Feb 3 A Fool And His Money
Jan 27 Reruns!
Jan 20 In from the cold
Jan 13 Curious George's Curious Journey
Jan 6 In Pursuit of Publicity
2005:
Dec 30 Vicious Circle
Dec 23 Dumb Luck
Dec 16 Every Last Drop
Dec 9 The devil is in the details
Dec 2 Taking A Closer Look
Nov 25 By the Book
Nov 18 Correcting An Error
Nov 11 A Holy Mess
Nov 4 Let The Games Begin
Oct 28 From the Halls of Montezuma to your post office
Oct 21 Flying High
Oct 14 Safety First
Oct 7 A Pretty Long Shot
Sep 30 How They See Us
Sep 23 Safe and Sound
Sep 16 Obfuscating Appellations!
Sep 9 Ay Caramba!
Sep 2 Selling Stamps on eBay
Aug 26 Selecting Subjects
Aug 19 Big Plans
Aug 12 All Dressed Up And No Place To Go
Aug 5 Special Handling
Jul 29 Don't Be A No-Show
Jul 22 Location, Location, Location
Jul 15 Sneak Peak
Jul 8 Political Correctness
Jul 1 The Beatles And Baby-Boomers
Jun 24 The Best Of Times
Jun 17 Mugged By The Mugginess
Jun 10 Flying High, And Upside Down
Jun 3 Fits And Starts
May 27 Travel Stamps
May 20 Fun With Numbers
May 13 Marketing One-Oh-One
May 06 Selling Out
Apr 29 In the picture
Apr 22 Giants of the Arts
Apr 15 By The Numbers
Apr 8 Real Life Intrudes
Apr 1 A fabled author
Mar 25 Engraved in our hearts
Mar 18 Get Ready for the Rush
Mar 11 Love Story
Mar 4 Shifting Sands
Feb 25 Honouring A Jazz Living Legend
Feb 18 Don't Cut It Out!
Feb 11 High-Speed Stamp Collecting
Feb 4 Remembering Ronald Reagan
Jan 28 No thanks!
Jan 21 Something To Sing About
Jan 14 Hail to the Chief
Jan 07 Globe-Trotting
2004:
Dec 31 Doing An End Run
Dec 24 Cranking it up
Dec 17 A Present From The Postal Service
Dec 10 Attention To Detail
Dec 3 Filling The Void For Youth
Nov 26 Collecting Gifts
Nov 19 How Much Is That Stamp In The Windows
Nov 12 Stamp One For The Gipper
Nov 5 Nothing Definitive
Oct 29 Honoring the Prince Of Broadway
Oct 22 Postmarks of our times
Oct 15 Canada Gets The Picture
Oct 8 More than just Christmas
Oct 1 Twister of Fate
Sep 24 Taking A Stand
Sep 17 Twixt Tweens and Teens
Sep 10 It's the Muppet Show!
Sep 3 Hello Grandma, Hello Grandpa
Aug 27 Not Quite
Aug 20 Behind The Stamps
Aug 13 Not Dead Yet
Aug 6 Ride, ride, ride
Jul 30 Letting In The Tradesmen
Jul 23 Something strange in your mail
Jul 16 Looking ahead to Oh-Five
Jul 9 An Elvis Sighting
Jul 2 Why not ME?!
Jun 25 And then there was one
Jun 18 Looking ahead to Oh-Six
Jun 11 Stamps For Ronald Reagan
Jun 4 Preparing for D-Day
May 28 The move is on
May 21 Fairy Tales on Stamps
May 15 Royal Wedding
May 7 Westward Ho
Apr 30 Exploring Lewis and Clark
Apr 24 Tickled Pink
Apr 16 The biggest problem involving tax stamps since the Boston Tea Party
Apr 9 Stamps On The Cutting Edge
Apr 2 It's All Relatives
Mar 26 Seeking Approvals
Mar 19 We're not in Kansas any more
Mar 12 Beware Bogus Stamps
Mar 5 Added Perspective
Feb 27 Making Change
Feb 20 Exploring New Territory
Feb 13 Urban Legend
Feb 6 Remembering Columbia
Jan 30 Back From The Dead
Jan 24 Happy New Year (Again)
Jan 17 Best Foot Forward
Jan 9 Guess Who's NOT coming to dinner?
Jan 2 Rumors of our demise might be premature
2003:
Dec 27 Picturing the Wild Blue Yonder
Dec 20 Last-Minute Gifts For Stamp Collectors
Dec 12 Early Start
Dec 5 Getting The Wright Postmarks
Nov 28 Crass Commercialism
Nov 21 Deeply-Rooted Preferences
Nov 14 Tiny Differences, Big Challenge
Nov 7 Serious Stamps For Serious Subjects
Nov 1 Changing of the Guard
Oct 25 Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries
Oct 17 Opening the Vault
Oct 10 Presidential Perks
Oct 3 Coming In From The Cold
Sep 27 Waiting For Mickey
Sep 20 Guam but not forgotten
Sep 13 Who Ya Gonna Call?
Sep 6 Scammers beware
Aug 30 Late to the party
Aug 23 Keepers of the Flame
Aug 16 Arts and Entertainment
Aug 9 A taxing specialty
Aug 2 Reading The Tea Leaves
Jul 26 North of the Border
Jul 19 Two Weeks, Ten Stamps
Jul 12 Honor Thy Father
Jul 5 Celebrities among us
Jun 28 When You Wish Upon A Stamp (2 versions)
Jun 21 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Jun 14 It's show time!
Jun 7 Please Mr. Postman
May 31 That's fool's gold
May 25 The Eagle is about to land
May 17 Humor on eBay
May 10 What am I going to do with this stuff?
May 3 Stamp Schedules Written in the Sand
Apr 26 Pretty as a picture
Apr 19 Stamps and Surfing The Web
Apr 11 Taking Flight
Apr 5 No Breakfast at Tiffany's
Mar 29 Pride and Prejudice
Mar 22 Commemorating War
Mar 15 Dumb, dumb, dumb
Mar 8 Show Going
Mar 1 Dead or Alive
Feb 21 Lights! Camera! Stamps!
Feb 14 Irregular Regular Issues
Feb 8 Memorials and Opportunism
Feb 1 Getting Wisdom
Jan 25 Powered Flight Finally Takes Off
Jan 18 Stamp-Buying Alternatives
Jan 11 Friend or Foe?
Jan 4 Stamps to get your goat
2002:
Dec 28 The Year In Stamps
Dec 21 Christmas around the world
Dec 14 Going to the polls
Dec 7 Making Christmas mail special
Nov 30 Designing Dynasty
Nov 23 Charity and Stamps
Nov 16 America's First Stamps
Nov 9 A sigh of relief
Nov 2 Collecting Grandfather
Oct 26 Hawaii One-Five-Oh
Oct 19 A Royal Perk
Oct 12 A Second Look At Next Year
Oct 5 Postage Stamp Powerhouse
Sep 29 Washington's Hidden Gem
Sep 21 True Grit
Sep 14 It's good to be the King
Sep 7 Love And September 11th
Aug 31 Three in a row
Aug 24 By Popular Demand
Aug 17 Sex On A Stamp
Aug 10 A Look Ahead
Aug 3 Cute, cuddly and lost
Jul 26 Model Stamps
Jul 19 A busy summer for stamps
Jul 12 Less Competition
Jul 5 We'll be loving him, always...
Jun 29 Houdini's latest trick
Jun 22 Get 'em while they're COLD
Jun 15 From Pricelist to Bible
Jun 8 Late Developing
Jun 1 Somehow Familiar
May 25 Greetings Again
May 18 A Flood Of New Stamps
May 11 Love 'em or leave 'em
May 4 Turning Stamp Collecting Upside Down
Apr 27 Behind the Tulips
Apr 20 Baked Nebraska
Apr 13 Mystery Mail
Apr 6 Last-Minute Stamps
Mar 30 Bucket Brigade
Mar 23 Predicting Popularity
Mar 16 Recognizing Heroes
Mar 9 Backfield in motion
Mar 2 Stamp Shortages
Feb 23 Not Dead Yet
Feb 16 Suave and debonair
Feb 9 Keeping it topical
Feb 2 Happy Birthday to Us
Jan 26 Microwaved Mail
Jan 19 Garden State Goof
Jan 12 Rights and wrong
Jan 4 Variations On A Theme
2001:
Dec 29 Up close and personal
Dec 22 Wake up and smell the...POSTAGE STAMPS?
Dec 15 Anthrax Yields New Collectibles
Dec 8 More Details about Next Year
Dec 1 Back-room stamps
Nov 24 Dear Santa
Nov 17 Getting the picture
Nov 10 Bad Timing
Nov 3 Modern History on Stamps
Oct 27 Trick or Treat!
Oct 20 United We Stand, Divided We Issue
Oct 6 Using Stamps in the war against terrorism
Sep 29 Too small!
Sep 22 A Stamp for 9-1-1?
Sep 15 Real Life Intrudes
Sep 8 Here they come again
Sep 1 A slice of America
Aug 25 Hand-carved stamps
Aug 18 The Big Show
Aug 11 A peak into the crystal ball
Aug 4 We Still Love Lucy
Jul 28 Bid Rigging
Jul 21 Ten Days In August
Jul 14 Wedding Invitation Blues
Jul 7 Tuning up for the Maestro
Jun30 Feminization
Jun 23 Frequent Flier Philately
Jun 16 It really IS the World Wide Web
Jun 9 Where's Frida?
Jun 2 It really IS a big deal
May 26 Seeing Red Over Purple Hearts
May 19 The Sweet Smell of Success
May 12 Get 'em while they're hot
May 5 A tall, silent stamp?
Apr 28 It's the economy
Apr 21 Finding Stamp Shows
Apr 14 In the news
Apr 6 Heads up!
Mar 31 Batter up!
Mar 24 Fine Tuning
Mar 17 Postal Subversion
Mar 10 A Treasure Trove of Trivia
Mar 3 The non-collecting philatelist
Feb 24 The stamp is NOT in the mail
Feb 17 Postmark Pursuit
Feb 10 Going Global
Feb 3 Love American Style
Jan 27 Commemorative junk mail
Jan 20 Inaugurating a new president
Jan 13 Why are Scandinavian collectors going to ARIZONA
next weekend?
Jan 5 Raising money through stamps
2000:
Dec 29 The catalogue of the future
Dec 22 Celebrate Christmas all year
Dec 15 Commemorating the Never-Ending Election
Dec 8 Taking Advantage
Dec 1 Not so fast!
Nov 24 All in the Family
Nov 17 2001: A Stamp Odyssey
Nov 10 Fabulous Finds
Nov 3 The secret stamp catalogue
Oct 27 Putting them away
Oct 20 A tough stamp for a tough guy
Oct 13 Christmas at the White House
Oct 6 Next year's Canadian stamps
Sep 29 Appealing to Kids
Sep 22 Stamps that rate
Sep 15 Missing the Olympics
Sep 8 From Sales Circuits to Electronic Circuits
Sep 1 Lenny, Lucy and Snoopy
Aug 25 Finding a stamp dealer
Aug 18 Stampshow 2000
Aug 11 Behind the scenes of U-S stamps
Aug 4 Using exciting stamps on your mail
Jul 28 Why do we start collecting stamps?
Jul 21 Suppose they gave a stamp show and nobody came?
Jul 14 The Postal Service Loves Lucy
Jul 7 Kids In Space
Jun 30 The Big Show
Jun 23 Putting a certain 'stamp' on history
Jun 16 It ain't necessarily so
Jun 9 The Never Ending Series
Jun 3 Two new stamps solve a postal problem
May 27 Going Semi-Postal
May 20 A little knowledge is...well, you know
May 13 Gearing up for Summer
May 6 This and that in the news
Apr 28 It ain't necessarily so
Apr 21 When Rights Are Wrong
Apr 15 Scandinavia in Arizona
Apr 8 Postponing Christmas
Apr 1 Borrowing from other countries
Mar 24 Old News
Mar 17 Buying and Selling on eBay
Mar 10 Combining coins and stamps
Mar 3 Finding the new stamps
Feb 25 How to discourage collectors
Feb 18 Stamp Security
Feb 12 Buy a stamp, save the environment
Feb 4 Mistakes in the news
Jan 29 The first rule is....there ARE no rules
Jan 22 Taken
Jan 15 Cheap Challenge
Jan 7 Learning history painlessly
1999:
Dec 31 The Big Stories of 1999
Dec 25 Cashing in on the Millenium
Dec 18 Cancelling Christmas
Dec 11 Buy a stamp, win a car
Dec 4 Should stamps be slabbed?
Nov 27 Spreading happiness
Nov 20 Finding a dealer
Nov 13 Be selective
Nov 6 Using stamps on your mail
Oct 30 It's show time!
Oct 23 Pull out your wallet
Oct 16 Dead or alive
Oct 9 Exhibiting
Oct 2 Special events for kids
Sep 25 The End of the Music
Sep 18 A sneak peak at next year's stamps
Sep 11 Stamp Thefts
Sep 4 They're talking about us
Aug 29 Apprising You on Appraisals
Aug 22 Getting ready for Stampshow
Aug 15 What's it worth?
Aug 8 The Solar Eclipse
Aug 1 The Black Heritage Series continues
Jul 24 Honoring American heroes
Jul 17 On the road again
Jul 10 Real or fake?
Jul 3 Opening the lines of communication
Jun 26 Summertime
Jun 19 Internet stamp auctions
Jun 13 An inexpensive do-it-yourself specialty
Jun 5 Time for a facelift
May 29 Oops
May 22 Sugar-coating History?
May 15 Consorting with the enemy?
May 8 Showing off to the folks overseas
May 2 Oddities in the philatelic news
Apr 24 The Real World intrudes
Apr 17 Propaganda or profiteering?
Apr 10 A change in policy
Apr 3 The Beauty of the Desert
Mar 27 Influence
Mar 20 Free Membership in the Nation's Stamp Club
Mar 13 Technology and Stamp Collecting
Mar 6 Much ado about nothing
Feb 27 Buying stamps for your collection goes high-tech
Feb 20 Getting started
Feb 13 Wrestling children into collecting stamps
Feb 6 Remembering the late Pat Herst
Jan 30 Valentine's Day Stickers that also carry the mail
Jan 23 News about stamp catalogues
Jan 16 A controversial figure on an upcoming US stamp
Jan 9 Buying some new U-S stamps depends on where you live
Jan 2 African American stamp collecting
1998:
Dec 26 New Year's resolutions
Dec 19 A stamp collector who helps pick U-S stamps
Dec 12 Politics in stamp collecting
Dec 5 Going to the Web
Nov 28 From weekly to bi-weekly
Nov 21 Nature and Show Biz -- next year's stamps
Nov 14 Remembering the King of the Cowboys
Nov 7 Postal Artifacts from the Titanic
Oct 31 The Smiley Face is in, Watergate is out
Oct 24 Big stamps for a small city in New York
Oct 17 Great-looking U-S stamps you'll probably never see
Oct 10 A big shake-up in stamp publishing
Oct 3 Congress and Stamps
Sep 26 National Stamp Collecting Month
Sep 19 Hints of the year to come
Sep 12 A personal guide for a stamp show
Sep 5 Postage stamp-sized art for...postage stamps
Aug 29 So you want to be a stamp dealer
Aug 22 Kick off for the Stamp Show Season
Aug 15 Disney on a U-S stamp
Aug 8 No more summer doldrums
Aug 1 Secrecy and the U-S Stamp Schedule
Jul 25 Visit a stamp show on the web
Jul 18 Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane --
it's a STAMP!
Jul 11 Groovy stamp subjects next year
Jul 4 Too much of a good thing
Jun 27 A rate hike means new stamps
Jun 20 A stamp collecting organization for kids
Jun 13 Doing it right, after a century
Jun 6 The birth certificate of a stamp
May 30 New Stamps Without a Home
May 23 Celebrating the Century
May 16 Get 'em while they're hot
May 9 Topicals!
May 2 Do you belong to any philatelic organizations?
Apr 25 It's the busy period in U-S stamps
Apr 18 Stamp Collecting's Renaissance Man
Apr 11 Would you pay 40 cents to mail a letter?
Apr 4 Living People on U-S Stamps?
Mar 28 Insuring your collection
Mar 21 Attend the birth of a stamp
Mar 14 More Stamp dates and places from the U.S.
Mar 7 For love or money?
Feb 28 Not just stodgy old men
Feb 21 Debts, nets and suits
Feb 14 Collect for fun, not fortune
Feb 7 What do Babe Ruth, Emily Post and Radio
have in common?
Jan 31 Remembering the 20th Century and Diana
Jan 24 Honoring living people on stamps
Jan 17 More of the same
Jan 9 The Start and the End of the Century
Jan 3 The Year of the Tiger
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