820   Love, the Great Depression, and War: A Correspondence
by Daniel F. Ring   Maritime mail traces a friendship lost to war.

830   The Fresno-San Francisco Bicycle Post of 1894
by George W. Bowman   A bicycle shop owner’s response to mail service interruption during the 1894 Pullman Workers Strike.

838   The Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa
by Steve Bahnsen    A unique combination of two passions: bicycling and post offices.

848   The Bilingual Cancellations of Xinjiang, China
by Ryan Tuxing Ren    In just fifty years, six bilingual postmarks were used to identify the mail.

845   Mauch Chunk ‘Switchback’ Railway
by Charles A. Fricke    Postcard illustrates the second-oldest railroad in the U.S. and inspiration for America’s first roller coaster.

Featured Columns

816   Collecting Coast to Coast — Wayne L. Youngblood
Erratic or Erroneous Enforcement — When is it really Media Mail?

888   Worldwide in a Nutshell — Bob Lamb
Slovak Republic — At one time part of the greater Czechoslovakia, stamps of the Slovak Republic first went on sale January 1, 1993.