Oh, yeah, one more thing.

You know how the USPS offers a by-phone line to order stamps? Well, I called up 1-800-STAMP-24 one day because I was starting to run out of 1-cent kestrels (yes, I'm still using up those 33-cent stamps). The nice crazy lady I talked to on the other end of the phone said that I'd have to wait 2-3 weeks for shipping.

How nuts is that? You can just go to the web site, order stamps, and they'll be there in 2 business days via priority mail. The problem is that the web site doesn't offer everything the catalog does. But 2-3 weeks? Heck, I'd rather go to the post office.

Lots of stamp images for China's successful bid for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

Japan's Philatelic Museum seems like a much cooler place to go than our own Postal Museum. Road trip!

In Sri Lanka, a commemorative stamp was issued to celebrate 150 years of bilateral relations with the United States.

More from the Annals of Late Delivery: a postcard mailed in England makes it to its destination ... after 63 years.