Madison Avenue used to have high hopes for the lowly postage stamp. For decades, advertisers imagined that if only the legal barriers against commercial images on postage stamps came down, they could ...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is in trouble. Now that companies—and everyone else, really—is relying on email instead of paper mail, their mail volume has dropped by about one-third. On top ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Like a ...

Another company is trying its hand at offering customized postage stamps in the United States, but Internet pranksters could foil the plan again. WeStampU, based in Germany, announced Tuesday that it ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge dismissed as moot claims against the U.S. Postal Service over its refusal to let a third-party vendor create and sell customized postage stamps “marked with the words ...

Stamps.com is now letting customers design their own stamps. With PhotoStamps, people can convert digital photos, designs and images into valid U.S. postage. The company said this week it has recently ...

Just in time for mailing holiday greeting cards, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo launches a series of customized conservation stamps featuring seven Zoo animals: the giant panda, Asian elephant, ...