The USPS often releases new designs for stamps, such as the fishing-themed images on last week's new set of Forever Stamps, or stamps that commemorate public holidays, or the advent of a new year.

The changes coming to USPS services will be phased in, with the first tranche taking effect at the start of April.

Last month the people of a quiet picture-postcard Essex village said they are about to become outnumbered by asylum seekers housed at a former RAF airfield next door. While Wethersfield has a ...