There has been an increase in encounters with counterfeit postage stamps around card-heavy holidays, officials said.

These are the most valuable stamps from around the world ... stamp issued in 1847 or 1846 (it’s said to have been used as postage for a love letter between two cousins). It sold for $1 million ...

A 1-cent postage stamp from 1868 is up for auction and could fetch up to $5 million. A New York auction house is selling what it calls “America’s Most Valuable Postage Stamp”—a 1-cent “Z ...

Nearly 162,000 counterfeit US “forever” stamps shipped from China were recently seized at a Chicago mail facility by US ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized eight shipments of more than 161,000 counterfeit U.S. postage stamps at the Chicago International Mail Branch last weekend.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Chicago international mail branch stopped eight shipments from ...

As a result, the Baden 9 Kreuzer misprint became the most expensive German postage stamp. It is not only German stamp collectors who have a penchant for errors, freaks, and oddities, however.

The eight shipments of the counterfeit stamps, seized over the weekend, would have had a value of $118,000 ... is the most frequently counterfeited, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said as ...

The federal agency said it stopped eight shipments from China containing 161,860 counterfeit stamps. The stamps were seized ...

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are ... and provide valuable new clues to the origins of our universe," according to the postal service.

The stamps were seized for violating trademark laws and deemed fake "based on the very low invoice value, the routing ... t care about the effect that fake postage has on your ability to send ...