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APRIL 2008
** NEW **
April 27: USPS has announced new plate numbers for upcoming rate
change issues and commemoratives. Details on the 2008 page.
** NEW **
April 26: We continue to add plate number singles of the AMG issues,
courtesy of APNSS member Wallace Cleland. Issues of the
AMG in Italy are now available.
** NEW **
April 25: A number of PNS images of precanceled
postage dues have been added. Please
let the Webmaster know if you can share additional precancel examples for
other denominations.
** NEW **
April 20: The recently announced water-activated pane of 100 Purple
Hearts stamps becomes the first water-activated commemorative stamp since
the 34¢ James Madison stamp in 2001. All the intervening ones have
been self-adhesives. (Unless you consider the Purple Heart stamps as
"regular issues" or "special stamps" closer to definitives due to their
small size and the fact that they have been reissued for each rate
change... in which case, we've had no water-activated commemoratives
since 2001.)
** NEW **
April 14: New plate numbers reported for
new issues. Details on the 2008 page.
** NEW **
April 13: APNSS member Wallace Cleland has graciously shared images
of his award-winning Allied Military Government collection. The
first Installment shows plate number singles (photographically cropped
from larger multiples) of the AMG in France.
April 5: The March/April issue of Plate Numbers is in
the mail. The 160-lot mail auction closing date is May 15.
April 1: New plate numbers and Scott catalog numbers reported for
new issues. Details on the 2008 page.
MARCH 2008
March 15: New plate number reported for the Avery (10¢) Banner bulk
rate coil. Details on the 2007 page.
March 11: New plate numbers and Scott catalog numbers reported for
new issues. Details on the 2008 page.
FEBRUARY 2008
February 26: Here are the new postal rates, effective May 12, 2008.
| Weight or rate |
2007 rate |
New 2008 rate |
| 1 oz |
41¢ |
42¢ (up 1¢)
|
| Additional ounce |
17¢ |
17¢ (no
change) |
| 2 oz |
58¢ |
59¢ (up 1¢)
|
| 3 oz |
75¢ |
76¢ (up 1¢)
|
| 4 oz |
92¢ |
93¢ (up 1¢)
|
| 5 oz |
$1.09 |
$1.10 (up 1¢)
|
| 8 oz |
$1.60 |
$1.61 (up 1¢)
|
|
Non-standard surcharge |
|
20¢ |
| Flat (1
oz) |
|
83¢ |
| Parcel (1
oz) |
|
$1.17 |
| Large
envelope (2 oz) |
97¢ |
$1.00 (up
3¢) |
| Post card |
26¢ |
27¢ (up 1¢) |
| Priority mail |
$4.60 |
$4.75 (up
15¢) |
| Express mail |
$16.25 |
$16.65 (up
40¢) |
| Certified mail |
$2.65 |
$2.70 (up
5¢) |
| Return receipt |
$1.85 |
$1.85 ? |
| Return receipt,
electronic |
85¢ |
85¢ ? (no change)
|
| Money orders |
$1.05 |
$1.05 ? |
| Delivery
Confirmation: First Class Mail |
75¢ |
75¢ ? |
| Delivery
Confirmation: Priority mail |
65¢ |
65¢ ? |
| Delivery
Confirmation: Parcel Post |
60¢ |
60¢ ? |
| 1/2 ounce
letter to Canada or Mexico |
69¢ |
72¢ (up
3¢) |
| 1/2 ounce
letter, international |
90¢ |
94¢ (up
4¢) |
The timing of the international rate changes is coincidental; USPS can
modify international rates at any time without requiring the approval of
the Postal Rate Commission or Board of Governors.
February 1: The January/February issue of Plate Numbers
is in the mail to our members. The 160-lot mail auction closing
date is March 15.
JANUARY 2008
January 15 - Reminder: Our web services aggressively filter what they believe is
"spam." Sometimes, legitimate emails are caught up in this cycle.
If you send an email message to the APNSS Secretary or another
officer and don't get a prompt reply, please send it again. The way
it works is: emails to our service (such as secretary at apnss dot
org) are automatically forwarded to an actual email address (in my case,
reb608y at yahoo dot com). Either our service or Yahoo might
consider your email spam. Be sure to include APNSS in the subject
line, and we can generally find it and respond.
Note: all email addresses on our web site are intentionally not
formatted, to thwart spammers. Their email "harvesting" programs
and web crawlers typically search for the 'at' sign within an email address, and grab the
text around it, which they then sell to disreputable types offering
questionable pharmaceuticals, opportunities to help the family of a former
Nigerian politician illegally transfer money using your personal bank
account, dating services, refinancing opportunities, surveys and other
scams. Don't fall for these scams! If you don't recognize the
sender, or it's not something you asked to be sent to you, it's probably
not a valid message. Just delete it. If it was an offer that
sounded too good to be true, it probably was....
January 15: APNSS member Larry Cohen has discovered that some of the plate numbers
used to print the 2¢ Harding Memorial stamp used the letter 'I' instead of
the numeral '1' in the plate numbers. Due to the way the plates were
produced, the same plate number (with either '1' or 'I') should appear
consistently in all positions. We hope Larry will continue studying
this issue and publish further details of his find. This discovery
is over 80 years after the stamps were produced! Examples can be
found on the Harding Memorial page.
January 11: Plate number collector Kamran Iftikhar has reported finding new plate number
V22222 on a booklet pane of the (41¢) Liberty Bell "Forever" stamps, Scott
4125a. It was originally issued with plate number V11111, and postal
policy has been to use only one set of plate numbers unless there were
significant design changes, despite protests from collectors. It is
not clear if this is a mistake, if the USPS policy has been rescinded or
modified, or there is some significant difference between stamps produced
from the plate V11111 and plate V22222 varieties.
January 10: Virtual Stamp Club members Mark Alan and Glenn Estus were the 10,000th and 10,001st visitors to the
APNSS web site, www.apnss.org, since
the "number of hits" counter was installed in May 2004 (we've been online
since September 2003). No, we don't and can't track who visits and
when! But when I saw that we were at 9995 or so, I let people on VSC
know that if they hurried, they might be the 10,000th visitor, and they
both let us know.
A number of PNS-related questions, and many of our new members, come to us
through our web site.
New plate number 5591 reported on a full sheet of 400 of the imperforate
1¢ Franklin stamp, Scott 383. Additional details on the
New Plates page.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Always: Orders being taken for 2007 Hebert's Catalog of Plate
Number Singles
May 15, 2008: Closing date for auction in March-April
Plate Numbers
Late May 2008: Plate Numbers issue #3 for 2008.
July 15, 2008: Closing date for auction in May-June
Plate Numbers
Late July 2008: Plate Numbers issue #4 for 2008.
November 21-23, 2008: COMPEX show at Arlington Heights, Illinois.
December 2008: Renew your APNSS dues if your mailing label
expiration date says Dec-07 or earlier.
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