How to Start an Indiana Postal History Collection
A beginner's guide to building a focused Indiana postal history collection: choosing a theme, finding covers, mounting and storing them.
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Indiana postal history articles
Guides and stories about Hoosier covers, cancels, mail routes and stamps.
Indiana on Stamps: The 1950 Territory and 1966 Statehood Issues
Two U.S. commemorative stamps mark Indiana's early history: the 1950 Indiana Territory issue from Vincennes and the 1966 Statehood issue from Corydon.
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Rural Free Delivery and the Small-Town Indiana Post Office
How Rural Free Delivery reshaped Indiana mail in the early 1900s, and what it meant for the many small village post offices that closed.
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Santa Claus, Indiana: The Town That Became a Christmas Postmark
The story of how a small Spencer County post office became famous for its Christmas postmark and the letters answered there every winter.
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Railway Post Offices and Hoosier Rail Mail
How railway post offices sorted the mail on moving trains across Indiana, and how to recognise RPO and route-agent markings on covers.
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Reading Indiana Town Cancels: Datestamps, Fancy Cancels and Duplexes
A practical guide to the cancellation marks on Indiana covers: circular datestamps, fancy cancels, duplex handstamps and what each can tell you.
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Mail by Stagecoach and Canal: How Letters Crossed Frontier Indiana
Before the railroads, Indiana's mail moved by horseback, stagecoach, river and canal. A look at the routes that tied Hoosier towns together.
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Stampless Covers of Early Indiana: Letters Before the Postage Stamp
Before 1847 an Indiana letter carried no stamp at all. Learn how to read the ink rate marks, town postmarks and folded-letter format of the stampless era.
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