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Posted 03/09/2016   12:38 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add DaveG28 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I'm wondering if anyone else has the same experience as me with the USA Philatelic catalog. Namely...receiving the darn thing. I don't know how many times I have requested it through the website or sent in the little postcard requesting my free "subscription". I might get a couple of them, and then no more and I have to do it again when it dawns on me that I haven't received one in a while. How long is their free subscription...2 issues? Do they give you the boot if you don't order from every issue? What gives? What am I missing?
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Posted 03/09/2016   4:07 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add oldguy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Well, it is the US Post Office after all, so expectations need to be very very low in the first place and there is a 90% chance you won't be disappointed.

It appears the USA Philatelic catalog is a "quarterly publication": "Want to peruse the current stamps, correspondence and collectibles in print? Don't be without USA Philatelic, our beautiful (and free) quarterly catalog." <-- from the website.

Have you given them 3/4 of a year to see if they are sending or not? I suspect the website is operated on a small/tiny budget so keeping it going may be a challenge.
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Posted 03/09/2016   7:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
They send two to me every quarter! I signed up to get a copy and all was well for a while. Then I placed an order with Kansas City and they started sending an extra one. I usually give the extra one away or leave it in a doctor's office waiting room.
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Posted 03/09/2016   7:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I used to get one up until the last one of 2015, but have not received the latest one!

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Posted 03/11/2016   08:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add DaveG28 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
So it's not just me, eh? haha I'll just send in another catalog request and get on their radar again. Thanks!
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Posted 03/11/2016   09:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add blcjr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Or buy from them online. That must be how I got on the list to receive a catalog. I never requested the catalog, but do get it.
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Posted 03/11/2016   09:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add DaveG28 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I actually do buy them on line. I just like receiving the catalog.
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Posted 03/11/2016   10:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add paulyann to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have the same problem...seem to keep asking to send one.
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Posted 03/11/2016   12:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add JLLebbert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Part of the problem might be the length of time between issues. I just received the 2016 1st quarter issue. It was a case of too little too late. All of the stamps in the USA Philatelic had already been issued ... it didn't even have the final issue of the 1st quarter (Sarah Vaughn). I seldom order anything from it, nevertheless I do always receive new issues, albeit very slowwwwwly.
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Posted 03/11/2016   5:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add angore to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I had subscribed online and it did receive for about 3 issues. I did not order anything so they obviously cancelled the free subscription.

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Posted 03/18/2016   8:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
If anyone's interested in an electronic copy of USA Philatelic, First Quarter 2016, it is (finally) available for download at the USPS Store's website at the link below:

https://www.usps.com/stamp-collecti..._catalog.pdf
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Posted 03/19/2016   05:28 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Londonbus1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have never purchased anything through the Catalogue, but it has arrived, mostly on time, for over 7 years to me here in Israel, including the latest copy.

I have been complimentary about it before which can be found somewhere here:

https://www.stampcommunity.org/sear...sp?mode=DoIt

The periodical pops up often in discussions here as you can see if you clicked on the link.
I put my good fortune in receiving my copy down to the fact that I have written to them on a few occasions lavishing praise on their quite superb Front Cover designs.

They are some of the best I have seen on any Philatelic magazine or journal cover and the standard has continued.
What is inside is of little interest to me as I only collect US Flags.

Another great SCF topic to add to this topical collection !
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