When someone joins the Society, we capture a lot of information about him or her. While this is primarily used for internal USPCS purposes, some of it has historically been listed in the Member’s Directory (Member access-only), unless members ask us not to. We recently changed the Member Profile page to give you more flexibility […]
Archives for March 2016
USPCS Dinner at NY2016 – Reserve Now!
Only 3 Seats Left! – On Friday, June 3, 2016, the Society will host a dinner at 6PM at Michael’s, 24 W. 55th Street in New York. To receive tickets, you must pay in advance ($160 per person). Please send a check to Mike Plett at 2855 Willowmere Woods Dr, Vienna VA 22180-7080; or by PayPal to treasurer@uspcs.org. […]
Society Winners at ARIPEX, TEXPEX and Garfield-Perry
Jim Allen (photo) and John Barwis take Grand awards at Aripex and Texpex, respectively. News of other members winners at these shows and at Garfield-Perry below… ARIPEX At the Aripex show the weekend of Feb. 19, our own Jim Allen won the Grand award with his “The First United States 12¢ Stamp Series of 1851-1861.” Congratulations Jim! […]
First Westbound Sailing Under the Retaliatory Rates
One of three known examples of the large crude New York Post Office 24c hand stamp, and the only one on a cover bearing the British 1sh embossed adhesive. Beginning in July 1, 1840, Samuel Cunard’s line of British packet steamers began carrying letters between the U.S. and U.K., at a rate of 1 […]
