Register Now This presentation will cover the history of city letter carrier services from 1753 to 1863. It will include a discussion of the Franklin and Eagle Carrier stamps and the carrier stamps and special markings of carrier departments in major U. S. cities. Cliff Alexander Cliff Alexander is a Washington DC partner in the […]

Register Now Ken Stach will present on "Western Expresses," private companies that carried mail west of the Mississippi River as an adjunct to, or sometimes in competition with, the US Post Office of the day. These companies operated from roughly 1849 through the 1890s, but their heyday was in the 1850s and 1860s. Ken will […]

Register Now Daniel A. Piazza became the Smithsonian National Postal Museum's Chief Curator of Philately on July 28, 2014. He is responsible for exhibitions, research, and acquisitions related to the museum's collection of six million postage stamps and postal artifacts. These objects form one of the largest philatelic and postal collections in the world and […]