Ongoing USPCS Efforts Require Dues Adjustment.
2015-01-25… Beginning with the USPCS dues mailing 1 May, 2015:
(1) The Annual Membership dues will be raised to $35 per year. The additional mailing fee for International members will increase to $16 per year.
(2) New Life Memberships will continue to be offered but will be raised to $1000; with existing Life memberships remaining unchanged, of course. Life Members will need to confirm, either by email or by returning a form sent out in May, whether they wish to receive the Chronicle and Chatter in hard copy, or ONLY through the USPCS website (as the Web Chronicle).
(3) International members will have an option of a non-paper/web-only subscription to the Chronicle and Chatter, without the $16 additional mailing fee. The Web Chronicle version will be available approximately 30 days after the paper publication date.
Watch for your dues mailer in early May 2015.
There are several reasons for these increases. Since our latest price increase in 2003, inflation has risen 30% and the Chronicle now costs $7+ more per member than current dues, despite our many cost containment efforts. In addition, we have dramatically increased what we provide to our members. We have:
- Changed to a full-color Chronicle, and expanded from 80 to 104 pages
- Increased our website content by 10,000%
- Made the Web Chronicle available in searchable digital form
- Improved the speed and access of our web resources
- Added numerous collections to the web site
- Posted 18 well known philatelic reference books on the site as e-Books
- Sponsored several Young Philatelic leaders
- Had The Chronicle of the U.S. Classic Postal Issues recognized as one of the leading philatelic journals by the international community.
Most of these projects were accomplished by the generous donations of our members, without which they could not have been accomplished. Special thanks to those donors.
