Uspod Official Postal Guides On Stamp Smarter

The USPOD Official Postal Guide was initially published in 1874 and continued in regular publication through the end of 1955. This publication was published regularly in both the monthly and quarterly frequency formats, and was also provided to every post office and postmaster. For most years, there was an annual volume published in January or July, followed by eleven monthly issues, which summarized the significant features which had appeared in the Daily Postal Bulletin.

Over 35 gigabytes of these Postal Guides have been added to Stamp Smarter for download.
http://stampsmarter.com/Learning/PostalGuide.html

Don

Congratulations, Don. What a wonderful addition to our digital resources. How best can these be searched, key word,??

Some of them have been OCRed so you can search inside those. I am working towards recompiling and OCRing all of them in the future (next few months). To make the entire library of files searchable in a single search is going to require a different approach but I think I have a possible solution.
Don

Russ:

We debated for a long time before we decided to post the Official Postal Guide PDF files without the "search" capability.

We decided to post them "as-is" for now because many of the Annual volumes are not available on Google Books (only those up to 1923), and while the later ones are generally present on HathiTrust, they cannot be downloaded in full for use on a local computer (only as individual pages).

In addition, virtually none of the monthly or quarterly supplements are found online in either digital library. They have materials not found in the Daily Postal Bulletins, the annual editions or the PL&R.

It was our belief that access to the PDF versions of these additional Annual and Supplementary issues, even without the search capability, would immediately benefit the postal history community.

We also are working on a way to address the search issue. When this is successful, we'll update the downloadable files.

In the interim, the Introduction page to every PDF has a link to all copies of that Postal Guide which I had located in both Google Books or HathiTrust. You can always use that link to perform your search, then return to your local copy to do any reading or "cut-and-paste" operations for the desired materials.

Thank you for your interest. If this resource improves your productivity, please consider a contribution to Stamp Smarter for hosting these files. See the Donate button at the bottom of the page.

Mike