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Welcome to the Official

Meter Stamp Society Web Pages

The Meter Stamp Society, an APS affiliate, is dedicated to the collection of postage meter stamps, topical slogans on postage meter stamps, computer postage (CVP), framas, photostamps and similar items.  The Society sponsors a meeting at national philatelic shows about every 18 months.  The last meeting was at NAPEX in McLean, VA. The next meeting is being planned

      

 

News Items

2009 Membership Dues

 

New Membership Rates!

 Worldwide Web Delivery                $8 one year
US First Class Mail Delivery*        $20 one year

                                                              $38 two years
International First Class Mail*      $40 one year

                                                              $78 two years
 

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

Contact the Secretary Treasurer.

The MSS Membership year runs from January 1 to December 31.

Napex 2009

   The NAPEX meeting was fun and successful. Please check the Convention News for awards given for postage meter exhibits. This meeting provide the first time that a member was awarded the Grand award for a meter single frame exhibit.

Supplement to

International Postage

Meter Stamp Catalog

by Joel Hawkins & Rick Stambaugh

 

Update Pages to the Catalog are available FREE

www.worldmeterstamps.com/index_supplement.html

 

Note that this is a work in progress. Eventually the entire catalog will be available on the web. This might take some time. Replacement pages and updates for each country are available now. Rick and Joel will be adding material as they find it. Check back to this site to keep up. Copies of the current edition of the Catalog are also available from the site.

Meter Stamps Society

Quarterly Bulletin

The Spring 2009 Issue shipped in early April. All recent issues are available for Web Delivery from the Members Only site for immediate download:

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

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:

 

 

 Photos of Old Postage Meters

Most of the original postage meters are long gone, destroyed by law in many countries. Here are two links showing photos of these interesting old machines. Thanks to Joel Hawkins, Jim Ashby and Richard Peck.

www.worldmeterstamps.com/machines.html

www.worldmeterstamps.com/meter_stamp_reflections.html

 

 

What we Collect:

1. Postage Meter Stamps

    a. Topical Slogan

        Meters

    b. Postage Meter

        Types

    e. Postage Meter

        Essays

    f. Postage Meter Proofs

    g. Town Names

        (townlists)

        by State or Country

2. Computer Meter

    Stamps

3. Digital Meter Stamps

4. APC (Automated

    Postal Center) Stamps

5. Automat Stamps (CVP)

    a. Frama Vending

        Stamps

    b. Klussendorf Vending

        Postage Stamps

6. Photostamps

7. Tax Revenue Meter

    Stamps

8. Magazine Ads for

    Postage Meters

 


 

The Meter Stamp Society Discussion Group

 

 

Located at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/

as the 'meterstampsociety'

 

Join Today.

Membership open to all interested in collecting postage meter stamps and related topics.

You do not have to be a member of the MSS but it helps!

         
   

 

   

 

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