"It's different when you hold a handwritten letter from your mother, compared to just receiving a text," Chirakiti said. "Stamps, in a way, serve as ambassadors — they tell stories." For ...

The once-cherished art of writing letters and affixing stamps seems like a forgotten relic. Yet, for a dedicated community of collectors, stamps are not just valuable artifacts but carriers of ...

Inside it would have been the official mark (seal) of the sender and this would have been attached to a letter, much like a stamp, which could have been sent anywhere across the Empire.