In the 1920s and ’30s, clerks at The Times collected stamps from overseas mail. The postage tells of a fluid world history.

It is not original stamps in mint condition that ignite the passion of many collectors, but those deformed and reused versions that had been willfully defaced. The most famous German misprint comes ...

Germany’s postal department has exercised technical precautions to prevent the usage of stamps bearing LTTE symbols and figures. The assurance was given by Deutsche Post AG, after Sri Lanka’s embassy ...