PRIMER: A Simple Guide to Using the Web Chronicle posted.

The Society has posted a simple guide with screen captures on how to use the Web Chronicle “Search” and “Browse” features for all. Please go to the Web Chronicle Search and Browse pages today and review the PDF guide. The hope is that this primer will assist all researchers in locating over 60+ years of primary research articles contained within our award-winning journal. Enjoy!

Award-Winning Trade Routes of Salem, MA Exhibit Posted

2013-Feb-25…The award-winning exhibit by Mark Schwartz on “Ship Letters sent along the Trade Routes of Salem, Massachusetts: 1787-1837” has been posted in the Resource Center under Philatelic Exhibits. Drop by to view this and many other exhibits today.

Updated the FUTURE EVENTS, SYMPOSIUMS section with more details about the U.S. Classics 2012 events at the APC in November, 2012, in conjunction with the 7^th Annual Postal History Symposium.

2014
This future meeting shall take place at the Philatelic Show in Boxborough, MA May 2-4, 2014, sponsored by the Northeastern Federation of Stamp Clubs.  Show takes palce at the Holiday Inn, I-95 & Rte. 111, Boxborough, MA.

Schedule of Events

Friday, May 2

• 8:00 – 10:00 USPCS Board of Directors Meeting, Deck Room
• 11:00 – 12:00 Paul Bourke: Census of Leominster Label Covers Deck Room
• 6:00 USPCS Dinner, Kouri Residence, 16 Village Circle, Lexington

Saturday, May 3

• 11:00 – 12:00 John Bowman: Boyd’s Local Post in NYC, Deck Room
• 12:30 – 1:30 USPCS Annual Meeting Seminar Room
• 1:30 – 2:30 Bernard Biales: Special Handling of Late Mails, 1742-1851, Deck Room
• 6:00 – 6:30 Cocktails, Colonial Room
• 6:30 Awards Banquet & Guided Tour of Exhibits, Colonial Room

Sunday, May 4

• No planned activities

Updated the information on the Annual Meetings page for the 2012 Annual Meeting in Sacramento at StampShow. Updated the main index page Curent Matters with details and link for the U.S. Classics 2012 – Postal History Symposium.