Rude gestures are rare on postage stamps, but Ukraine's best known stamp has one. It shows a soldier raising the middle finger to a Russian warship in reference to a stand-off at Snake Island on ...

But the rising cost of postage has caught many Britons off-guard this year as they head out to stock up on stamps for their Christmas posting sprees. Royal Mail has increased the cost of a first ...

We sent the cards using first-class stamps, which means that those sent to addresses in the UK should have landed on people’s doormats the next working day. But, just 16 of the cards we sent ...