Pitney Bowes Kiosk in Texas

  PB has lauched a new Kiosk. These units are now installed in about eight SuperTarget stores in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Texas areas.

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Pitney Bowes Announces

Cloud Postage

pbSmartPostage

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Canada Meter Study Group Newsletter

From 1981 to 2005 editors Clay Rubic and then Ross Irwin, provided detailed news of postage meter activities in Canada as a Study Group affiliated with the Postal History Society of Canada (www.postalhistorycanada.net). Since that time Professor Irwin has provided Canadian news for the Meter Stamp Society Bulletin. The entire collection of newsletters, a complete Article Index and the original CMSG Catalog, are now available at both websites in searchable PDF format. This collection provides extensive information about the development of postage meter usage in Canada and included inventory lists of known meter numbers for the early postage meter types. Located in our Library and at the Postal History Society of Canada site.

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    $22

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/    

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

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

Personal Postage Worldwide

About 45 countries around the world provide some form of Personal (Custom) Postage stamps. Our attempt to provide a complete list, with website addresses of the postal services, is on our Personal Postage page.

We would like to fill out some detail on as many counties as possible. If you have scans of the stamps and instructions for obtaining them, please contact us at:

admin(at)meterstampsociety.com.

2011 New Membership Dues

New Membership Rates!

    *First Class Mail for US and International delivery will also include web delivery if you request it. The web delivery issue is in COLOR.

    To Join the MSS please click the "Join Us" button" above, download the form. Sent it with payment in US Dollars by Postal or Bank Money Order or a Check drawn on a US Bank to our Secretary Treasurer.

    The MSS Membership year runs from January 1 to December 31. If you join in mid-year we will send you the issues you missed this year. Your membership will be due again next January 1st.

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.

The members only Bulletin delivery site is:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mssqb/

Instructions for obtaining the MSSQB by Web Delivery may be downloaded HERE.

Indexes to the Meter Stamp Society Quarterly Bulletin are available on the Index page. These go back to the start in 1948.

In addition all issues of the Bulletin from 1948 to present are available on CD in searchable PDF format. See our Library.

Curious about our Quarterly Bulletin? Download a sample issue Autumn 2008 Vol 60 No 3:

Catalogue of Oval Postage Meters

     Now available the Catalogue of Oval Postage Meter Indicia of Postage Meter Manufacturers in the United States.  This is a compilation of all known meter numbers and the corporate users for the Type B and C postage meters, along with the Flying Eagle and some of the Type D meters. See the Library.

Meter Migration?

     All postage meters in the US were to be the IBI (Intelligence Based Indicia) after December 31, 2008. Meters with postage could be run down. Most meters needed to call home for validation every 90 days. Non-IBI meters were to be deactivated at the next validation. However members have been collecting covers that have non-IBI meter stamps as of this writing in September 2010. We have since found a GSA document that extends the life of non-IBI postage meters. Also, Canadian non-IBI meters can be found through the end of 2007. See the Meter Basics page Meter Migration Mandate section.

Schaumberg, IL

   The IBM Kiosk test at Schaumberg, IL ended on July 31, 2009. There is no indication that the machine will continue at another site. See News.

PB Kiosk Test in Canada

PB tested their kiosk at six sites around Toronto between September 2008 and January 2009. See News.

PB Kiosks Installed at

Duane Reade Stores in NYC

Four of the Duane Reade drug stores in NYC have installed the PB Kiosks. Also the kiosks have been installed at some Target stores in Minneapolis, Dallas and Oklahoma City  See News.