I was just notified by UPS that even tho we pay for insurance and shipping they will NOT pay any claims what so ever on postage stamps shipped. They lost a Scott # 226 grade 85 of mine and refuse to pay any claim on any stamp. Has anyone here ever had a claim paid for lost merchandise I need to know please. Thank You Steve

PS Do not ship UPS lets all stick together for this. It is going to go to court and anyone else that wants to join this fight Please inform me.

greetings fellow philatelic enthusiasts

Is it just me, with my limited finances, or does any one else have a hard time winning an auction on ebay. i just can't seem to win! must be just so many betting on so few. I think there's a lot of buying and reselling also. I have a lot better luck on stamp wants.

robert

There are no US Official stamps or covers on this forum! How can that be?

Let's fix this right now. Please post your O's. Classics to Mods.

I have been trying to put together a nice looking set of used classic singles for many years,
one-at-a-time, without too much progress.

This is the only Aggie in my collection. (Dept. of Agriculture)

Here's one I picked up at the stamp club meeting last night.
I may have paid too much but i really wanted it and there were other bidders



Richard

Check it out and see what you think.

http://cgi.ebay.com/One-of-a-kind-n...2%7C294%3A50

I was going through Dad's Coke collection and came across some cover he was saving as a part of that collection.

It isn't old at all. Early 1990s. Only about a third of them are even stamped. The rest are metered. Which I don't find attractive. However the labeling on the envelopes is awesome to me. He has cover from several regional Coke bottlers. Also has CCE and CC USA cover. Some of the metered mail is canceled with Coke devices too. Just neat stuff.

Also, he has postally unused envelopes from different regional bottlers, as well as some from the same bottlers, but from different eras (timeframes), so the designs are different.

Are unused envelopes something that could be considered cover, or are we getting too far off topic by putting them in a collection of cover?

I'll post some pics of different designs as I can scan them.

This one is from Sardis Mississippi. This plant is now defunct. Something like a cancel from a defunct post office. No more envelopes of this design and address since the 90s.

Is there someone here who can read Russian? I have a number of old Russian picture postcards with captions I'd like to translate into English, but entering letters for Russian script into the online dictionaries doesn't work, though English to Russian works beautifully.

I will send 50 worldwide revenues..my choice to anywhere in the world for 3 dollars..making up the first 50 now !

I just got some great stamps from Greece (thank you Bobgggg!)
One of them, a 1937 stamp called "Allegorical Figure of Glory"
is just so beautiful! I love angels and this got me to thinking what a great thread this would be.(the one Bob sent me is brown--I borrowed this pic until I get to the basement to scan mine)

Please let your ANGELS out to play!
Thanks so very much!
Gussyboy1

Ok, I have been thinking a lot about the "good old days" when trust and ethical behavior was the norm in the world rather than just some. I also have boxes of those "mish mash" glassines I bought at various stamp shows a decade or more ago and in all honesty will never find the time to sort and label.

So for posters with 100 or more postings, and have posted at least 10 times in the month of October will be eligible to receive a large envelope of stamps/glassines to look through. 5 cents per stamp you keep,and you return postpaid within 1 month, plus postage that was on envelope.

So you pay postage to and from, and 5 cents a stamp you keep. I do not intend to count them, I trust you. I will take up to 20 members to start with to see how the returns can be recycled. If your country allows free entry with out import/export difficulty, and you want to do this at the proper postage to/from your country, you can respond also.

Jim

Is anyone collecting any topicals? I have a few groups of topicals I would like to get rid of, one is cats does anyone collect cats on stamps?

Here are some FDCS with Aviation theme













Do you want to see more?

Here are some stamps with aviation theme. let's see more of them.

Here are some beautiful flowers from Hungary! For those who love flowers--please show us your flower stamps!

THANKS!
Gussyboy1

Years ago I set myself an ambitious goal when I started my U.S. airmail collection. I assumed that I would hit the big lottery jackpot and would be able to afford anything I wanted. Didn't happen!

I am attempting to collect a mint and used single copy, a plateblock and a FDC for every issue. Obviously, I'll never get there but here is an example page (C-23).





P.S. If anyone has any Zepplin plateblocks or FDC's they want to donate to the effort I will humbly accept them!

Here are my first Quetzal stamps from Guatemala. Having been inspired by certain members of this forum I am starting a collection of Guatemala in addition to my US collection

Ok lets see how far this thread can reach... You may be a stamp collector if ! Mine is..you might be a stamp if..you sort through 1600 of the same minimum value stamp..looking for a cancel or a differnce in perf size.mabe even a shade difference !

On June 17th the USPS will be releasing a pane of 16 stamps honoring Charles and Ray Eames. Yeah, I know. I've never heard of them either.

It seems that they are "famous" furniture designers. The stamps will depict, among other things, their design of . . . . now get this . . . . STACKING CHAIRS!

The U.S. is not alone in producing junk like this, but give me a break!

Ok, lets get back to it...this means you people with your new ten thousand stamps in particular...please follow my scan with a scan of a map on a stamp..there are millions of them !

I just soaked this off this morning:



I was a girl scout for many years until finally as a Junior Girl Scout there were no more leaders. My hubby was a cub scout, weblos, then a boy scout, then a scout leader--he even earned Order of the Arrow.

How many of you were scouts??

Gussyboy1

Don't know if this topic has been hit in the recent past so I'm giving it a try. Let's see what all kinds of Air craft we can get planes, balloons, helicopters, anything that flies.