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mml1942 - I will be happy to help maintain the PSE Cert database, and if there is anything else that I could help with, just let me know. I have a fair amount of programming experience (C and VBA), but unfortunately, no Web expertise.

Moderator(s), feel free to move this to any appropriate area. I'm new here, but been collecting off and on for like 65 years. I had put my collecting on hold for about 20 years and just recently got back into it. I'm trying to limit my collecting to the U.S. Americana Series from back in the '70's and '80's. Besides the stamps, I would especially like to find some sources of information about them. I can find the date of issue and the plate numbers that were used - I'd like to find when the date each of the Americana Series stamp's print run was overprinted with a BUREAU (not interested in town and types) precancel, when those precancels were received by each city's post office and/or authorized mailer (however that was arranged) and when they were 1st used by the authorized mailer(s). Like the 9 cent coil (Sc # 1616) has 5 different styles of Bureau precancel overprints, it would stand to reason that they weren't all printed during the same print run. I hope I made sense.

Hi Robert_Lee and welcome. You should repost this as its own topic with a question in the title - something like "Help with date of issue and plate numbers of Americana series." As it is now your question is buried in a topic that isn't related. This Stamp Smarter Foundation thread is about a knowledge project by one of the moderators whom we recently lost. Hope that make sense. Good luck, glad you are back collecting.

Don - My prayers are with you. God Bless! And thanks for all your contributions to the hobby.

I had to take a few steps back when I saw this post a few days ago when I was able to log in again. . It hurt me because Don is so amazing and cares about the cause. He is willing to help everyone especially us newer folks that didn't have a clue at first. He makes it so exciting. and Don .. you have made history!

Stamp community, I would like to propose to you an idea.. we need to design a postage stamp in honor of Don and get it to the usps.. tell me what you think. Thank you

Stampstarter website status update.

https://stampsmarter.org/index.html

For a number of months, some of the features on the Stamp Smarter website have experienced intermittant (and some times extensive) issues, usually associated with features that were using information stored in various databases.

After extensive investigations, and with the cooperation of our hosting service provider, we believe that these issues have been resolved.

Many of our users who regularly post here had reported these issues to us. If you were previously frustrated with the performance of a feature you regularly used, please help us verify that these issues are resolved by testing the areas you regularly used, and let me know if you continue to experience ANY issues.

You can contact me through this Forum, or through the [CONNECT] button on the Stamp Smarter home page.

Thanks to everyone who uses Stamp Smarter and who reported problems. Please always notify me if you encounter problems with any part of the website

Mike L
Community Support

Thank you Mike (and others) for your hard work carrying on Don's legacy. It is not unnoticed or unappreciated.