Boston Grand Prix Exhibit Judging Debacle

What I would like to see as a fix is that all, every one of the exhibitor frame fees be refunded due to the mishandling of the exhibit competition. That alone will prevent this from ever happening again especially if the APS must advance the money to refund frame fees. If the APS can't recover financially, so be it. Perhaps then the APS can sue the judges personally for compensation.

Edit: added two missing "h"-s.

Was it the APS or the FIP that was guilty of this poor judgement?

Ehh? This has nothing to do with the APS. Why should they bear any financial burden having to do with this? This is in the FIP, specifically one person.

It was the judges who are accredited by one or both organization. If it was the FIP competitors, just refund their frame fees from the Boston Expo 2026 moneys. If Boston Expo 2026 can't cover it, the is what bankruptcy court is for. Such a filing will force the reporting of what individuals, if any, and organization or organizations are on the hook for the show expenses. The frame money was collected under fraudulent circumstances, a promise of a competition which was falsified.

And then never invite the FIP back to any US show and expel Dr. McCann from organized US philately.

I doubt that refunding the frame fees to the people who were passed over would matter. That would not institute the changes necessary in exhibiting. That has to come from refusing to deal with FIP. As for Dr. McCann, as I said before, I have heard rumors to that effect.

BTW, it wasn't only the top exhibits that had problems. There were two 9X1 exhibits, one was Very Very Good, and the other was Very Very Very Good. But the Very Very Good exhibit won the higher award. I was told that even the exhibitor was shocked by it. And I saw both (I am fond of this stamp), and the result should certainly have been reversed. But…….