CHICAGO — When a bout of measles kept 6-year-old Charles Berg home from school, his grandfather did the one thing medicine can’t do for a sick kid: distract him. He shared his personal stamp ...

Stamp collecting isn’t what it used to be. The hobby once rooted in collectors’ homes and schools and in small stamp shops scattered around the country is now grounded on the Internet. These changes ...

Inside a little store, tucked away in a Costa Mesa strip mall, two sisters walk in on a recent Tuesday morning, seeking some advice. What should they do, they asked the owners of Coast Philatelics, a ...