Organizational Memberships

I am just curious as to how many of you out there in cyber land belong to any organizational Philatetelic groups and why or why not?

I see a lot of questions about many subjects, which through general knowledge seems to be all the answers some need. I know several of you collect specific items (topics), and would think that joining or belonging to a specific group would be helpful in your quest for any knowledge on the subject (not to mention access to sales circuits for buying the actual "stuff").

I will start:

I belong to the following groups:

American Philatelic Society (life member)
United Postal Stationery Society
Postal Stationery Society (Great Britain)
Precancel stamp Society
Perfins Club
Mobile Post Office Society
TPO - Seapost Society (Great Britain)
AZ-NM Postal History Society

I belong to them because they fill a need to learn about the various
subjects I collect.

SO, let's hear from some of the rest of you, and see who and what group you may belong to, or if you don't belong to a group (local stamp clubs may also be added) why not?

My primary club/group is SCF!

Current Member of:
American Philatelic Society (APS) www.stamps.org
British North American Philatelic Society (BNAPS) www.bnaps.org

Former Member of:
Royal Philatelic Society of Canada(RPSC) www.rpsc.org
dropped it this year because BNAPS gives me the Canada-related info I prefer. RPSC has more worldwide coverage.
American Topical Association (ATA) www.americantopicalassn.org
Joined for one year just out of curiosity. I'm not a topical collector.

Subscriber
Linn's Stamp News www.linns.com
Canadian Stamp News www.canadianstampnews.ca

Kirk

SCF

West African Stamp Circle http://www.wasc.org.uk/

American Philatelic Society (25+ year member)
International Society of Worldwide Stamp Collectors (ISWSC)

Back when I specialized in US stamps, I was a member of the US Philatelic Classics Society and the Bureau Issues Association (now the United States Stamp Society).

I am a member of:

British North American Philatelic Society (BNAPS) www.bnaps.org
(paying member of five of its specialized Study Groups as well!)
Royal Philatelic Society of Canada(RPSC) www.rpsc.org
Vatican Philatelic Society
Ottawa Philatelic Society

I am also on the organizing committee of ORAPEX, one of Canada's national shows and a WSP (World Series of Philately) show.

I am considering membership in:
American Topical Association (ATA) (because my 6-yr-old daughter LOVES collecting her butterfly stamps with daddy!

Former Member of:
American Philatelic Society (I found it to be too general for my needs, though I have been looking again and I might give it more serious thought if I could get my old membership number back!)

Not a great joiner, so only two:

India Study Circle, based in the UK and
Royal Victorian Philatelic Society, in the State of Victoria

Perhaps we can revive this thread as:

Q/ Did you join any new clubs or societies at the World Stamp Show NY 2016?

After recommending it to others, time & again, I joined the American Topical Association (ATA), though I still don't collect topicals.

I bought books from The West Africa Study Circle (WASC) and the Society of Israel Philatelists (SIP).

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Petermac, re-joining the APS will automatically restore your old number.

Peter

I am a member of the following:

APS ( since 1971 ),
United States Stamp Society,
Plate Number Coil Collectors Club ( PNC3 ),
American Helvetia Philatelic Society.

Peter

Here are mine:

APS, member since 1974 (42 years). Also long time member of APS library, the APRL.
ISPP (International Society for Portuguese Philately), member since 1991 (25 years)
Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library, member since 2010
Mexico Elmhurst Philatelic Society (MEPSI), member since 2012
Polonus Philatelic Society, for Poland. Joined in 2015
British North America Philatelic Society & Newfoundland Study Group, joined this year.

I am a member of:

Now
APS - long time
USSS - long time
PNC3 - rejoined

Was
ATA
WU30
PCSG - dissolved

Sorta
web clubs - VSC. Stamparama,etc.

I joined another group since the last posting:
The Perfin Society (Great Britain)

I keep looking...

APS
Royal Philatelic Society London
Èire Philatelic Society (Northern California Coordinator)
US Stamp Society
StampoRama
Sequoia Stamp Club (Redwood City, CA)

American Philatelic Society (APS)
Germany Philatelic Society (GPS) http://www.germanyphilatelicsocietyusa.org/

I have been a member of APS and ATA for a few years now. While at the show, I attended a couple of very interesting presentations hosted by the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society. After perusing their publication The Chronicle and talking to a few folks who were members, I joined up and look forward to learning a lot more about U.S. classic issues.

Since purchasing a hoard of duck stamps from another SCF member, I've become intrigued by this area of collecting so I wandered by the National Duck Stamp Collectors Society table a few times at the show but there was never anyone there. I'll be looking further into this at some point.

Now, just two for me:

American Philatelic Society
Oklahoma Philatelic Society

Don