News Items

New Canadian Vending Kiosk Stamp

    This vended stamp arrived on a Christmas card from Canada. We now know that these are printed from at Winco-Nixdorf kiosk in Toronto. There appear to be three of them in Toronto and maybe 10 more elsewhere. The stamps appear to be vended as singles and there are a series of fixed values based on the use.
   The kiosks are located at Station B (on Adelaide St. W. near Spadina Ave.), TD Centre Post Office (on the Concourse Level below Bay St) and the Adelaide Post Office (on Adelaide St. E. near Victoria St.). These have been appearing also at Staples stores in Guelph and other cities.
   The philatelic service of Canada Post will provide first day covers dated 12/12/12. It will not sell mint stamps.
   The stamps start out as rolls of 5000 preprinted stamps with everything except the barcode and value. The kiosk prints the barcode and the value.
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Pitney Bowes mail&go Kiosk Stamp

    PB has TWENTY FOUR new color stamps for its mail&go kiosks. However these are only available at locations that are usually closed to the public. Some universities have them in Student Unions that may be open. Reportedly PB has about 80 of these kiosks installed in these kinds of locations.
    Some public Kiosks have opened recently at RiteAid stores in the Salinas, CA area. One kiosk is in a market in Derry, NH.
    The kiosks at SuperTarget stores in Texas and Oklahoma have been removed.
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APC Kiosk Forever Stamps

     In April and May the USPS updated about 111 SSSMC kiosks (previously known as APC) in local post offices country wide with six designs of FOREVER stamps in addition to the usual APC stamp that has changed slightly as well. By the end of September all the SSSMC kiosks were converted. Interesting variations were discovered as these kiosks were converted and installed. The MSS Bulletin has been following this closely.
    On or about November 11, 2012 these SSSMC kiosks in some localities began to dispense a Forever Christmas stamp showing a colorful mailbox with a holiday envelope inside. This new stamp replaced the six black designs, perhaps forever. When these Christmas stamps were sold out they were replaced with the saome six black designs. It was expected that these colored stamps will be issued seasonally.
   On or about February 1, 2013 the USPS announced that a new Kiosk, known as "Self Service Kiosk" is being introduced at some Post Offices. The stamps at this time appear to be identical. This kiosk looks different and most significantly it is able to scan the tracking barcode from the shipping label to initiate the tracking of the package. The package no longer needs to be taken to the office counter, but can be placed into the bin near the kiosk.
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Society Information

CVP, Custom Postage and
Postage Meter Catalogs

Computer Vended Postage

USA: Postwertzeichen mit variablem Wertaufdruck (1989-2010)

Karim Roder

CVP postage (aka PC Postage) of the USA covered in this catalog is printed (at least partially) at a PC or a vending machine.

www.lulu.com/kroder $50

Personalized Postage

United States Personalized Postage

Charlie Gore, Otto Bergman, Joann Lenz

US Custom Postage generally contains an image provided by the user or an image that the vendor wants to market. The stamp sheets are printed by the vendor and mailed to the user. These stamps are used very much like normal stamps. In the US all of these stamps have some form of IBI (intelligent barcode indicia) barcode.

http://www.ephemera4u.com/ Free

Traditional Postage Meters

The International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog

Joel Hawkins and Richard Stambaugh

Traditional postage meter stamps that are generally dated and used on that date are listed in this catalog. This catalog covers all countries of the world that ever used postage meters. This is a work in progress.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/International_Postage_Meter_Stamp_Catalog

Free

Note that the original bound volume of this catalog is still available at: www.worldmeterstamps.com/index_supplement.html

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Meter Stamps Society Quarterly Bulletin

The Bulletin is the international news source for collectors of a wide range of postage stamps known a 'meters'. This includes prints from the traditional postage meter as well as more modern additions of Computer Vended Postage and Personal Postage. The Bulletin is published quarterly. All member may download the issues from our Yahoogroups members only website. Membership can also include a copy mailed to your door.

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News Items

New Canadian Vending Kiosk Stamp

Pitney Bowes mail&go Kiosk Stamp

APC Kiosk Forever Stamps

Society Information

CVP, Custom Postage and
Postage Meter Catalogs

2013 New Membership Dues

Meter Stamps Society Quarterly Bulletin

Next MSS Meeting StampShow 2013

Next Auction

News Items

New Canadian Vending Kiosk Stamp

Pitney Bowes mail&go Kiosk Stamp

APC Kiosk Forever Stamps

Society Information

CVP, Custom Postage and Postage Meter Catalogs

2013 New Membership Dues

Meter Stamps Society Quarterly Bulletin

CVP, Custom Postage and
Postage Meter Catalogs