I’ve just started collecting stamps, and after last weekend’s stamp show I’ve had a lot of stamps to sort through and put in an album.  Some of them I got in $5 bucket, but some of them I picked out for a variety of reasons.  Of all the stamps I’ve been gathering lately, I’m most interested in stamps with postal themes.

There are a lot of stamps issued with postal themes, which makes sense I suppose.  But I wasn’t quite prepared for how varied the art would be.  The one above, a stamp promoting zip codes from 1974, reminds me a lot of the art on Yellow Submarine.

And, the ever popular stamp on stamp variety– this one from Australia.  It doesn’t look like the US has a National Stamp Week, which is too bad.  We issue some really interesting commemoratives (plus, we already have a National Letter Writing week and some stamps to go with it).

I love this set that Palau issued.