Stamps as Learning Tools

Provides educational services to various groups including educators, parents, students, and community organizations through the Stamp Discovery Education Program. This includes youth educational programs, merit badge workshops, and interactive exhibits using donated materials.

Runs the Stamp Discovery Education Program, offering free or low-cost resources and activities for children, parents, teachers, scouts, and community groups. Includes merit badge workshops, stamp design contests, and an education collection of donated materials used in youth engagement, continuing a youth philately program established in 1964.

Offers museum exhibits, guided tours, and hosts special events, providing a unique visitor experience related to postal history and philately.

Actively fosters the study and research of postal history, broadening its focus from solely Western postal history to include worldwide collection and study.

Offers museum exhibits, including permanent collections of cultural objects and rotating/online exhibits, to connect people to postal history and philately. The organization also provides pre-scheduled guided group tours led by staff or volunteers.

Operates a museum with permanent and rotating exhibits, including historical artifacts like the old Naco post office front, territorial-era post office equipment, and artwork depicting early mail delivery. Offers pre-scheduled guided group tours and online exhibits to educate the public about postal history and stamp collecting.

Hosts the Tucson Birthday Stamp Design Contest, recognizing winners such as Nola Gelling, Serena Hsu, Roark Polzin, Joshua Baca, Jillian Stochowski, Sierra McLean, Lorenzo Corza, and Ryan Bridges.

Operates the Slusser Library, allowing local members to check out materials, provides free remote research assistance, and offers photocopying and scanning services subject to copyright and capacity limits.

Maintains two main collections: a Library Collection focused on philately, Arizona history, and the American Civil War, and an Archives Collection that preserves philatelic materials, particularly Arizona philately and postal history.

Maintains extensive library and archival collections, including over 30,000 titles and hundreds of boxes of research material related to stamp collecting and postal history. These collections are made available to the public for research in a reading room, with local members able to check out materials.

Operates a philatelic sales facility and postal outlet in Arizona that receives almost all new stamp issues, offering U.S. and worldwide stamps, covers, postcards, collectibles, and stamp collecting supplies, with stock supplied by donations. It also provides a contract post office.

The organization maintains the Slusser Library with over 30,000 titles and extensive archival collections focused on philately, Arizona postal history, and related topics such as the American Civil War. These collections include books, journals, auction catalogs, maps, ephemera, and research materials, which are cataloged and made accessible to the public through a reading room.

Manages a philatelic store selling U.S. and worldwide stamps, covers, postcards, collectibles, and supplies, with inventory sourced from donations. Also operates the only philatelic sales facility and contract post office in Arizona that receives nearly all new U.S. stamp issues.

Operates the only philatelic sales facility and postal outlet in Arizona, selling U.S. and worldwide stamps, covers, postcards, and collectibles, with stock supplied entirely by donations.

Obtains and preserves postal history of all periods for the Western States, including acquiring significant artifacts like the oldest known envelope postmarked in Tucson, Arizona Territory, and gathering historical objects related to mail transportation and distribution.

Fosters academic and public study of postal history through curated collections, access to archival materials, and support for research. The organization’s collections and services are designed to advance knowledge of postal systems, particularly in the Western U.S., while also expanding to worldwide philately.

Offers free remote research assistance (typically up to 30 minutes), in-person access to collections, photocopying and scanning (subject to limitations), and research tips on stamps and postal history. Services are available to members and the public, supporting scholarly and personal inquiry into postal history and philately.

Offers free remote research assistance, typically up to 30 minutes, and provides free photocopying and scanning of materials when possible. The organization also offers research tips through its library for topics such as stamps and post office information.