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News about APNSS and plate number singles NEWS ARCHIVES FOR 2008
DECEMBER 2008 December 30: Plate numbers disclosed for some 2009 issues. Details on the 2009 page. December 20: The December issue of Plate Numbers is in the mail to members of record. The closing date for the 160-lot auction is January 30, 2009. December 10: We have expanded the number of words a member gets for a free classified ad, now 50. Additional words for longer ads are still 10¢ each. Contact Plate Numbers editor Milt Keiles with your classified ad copy and to arrange payment for longer ads. December 9: New Scott catalog numbers announced for recent 2008 issues. Details on the 2008 page. December 8: Preliminary issues announced for next year. Details on the 2009 page. NOVEMBER 2008 November 29: New Scott catalog numbers announced for recent 2008 issues. Details on the 2008 page. OCTOBER 2008 October 9: New Scott catalog numbers announced for recent 2008 issues. Details on the 2008 page. October 7: APNSS member Wallace Cleland reports new plate number 2 for the 46¢ Ruth Benedict stamp of the Great Americans series. Additional details on the newplates page.October 4: VSC reports that Donna in Providence has a new printing of the $1 Wisdom stamp with a 2008 year date. If Scott follows its usual policy, this would merit a major catalog number. Plate number details will be made available as soon as we know them. October 3: Additional plate numbers announced or reported for new 2008 issues. Details on the 2008 page. SEPTEMBER 2008 September 7: A number of examples of imperforate PNS have been added to the Transportation Coils page. September 6: Additional plate numbers announced or reported for new 2008 issues. Details on the 2008 page. September 2: Plate number examples of the Allied Military Government stamps that were issued for use in Austria, Italy and Germany (Washington printings) have been uploaded. View these examples through the Possessions page. September 1: I have seen the new 5¢ Toleware stamp with plate number S2222222, and it also has a small 2007 date. This should make this unannounced issue sufficiently different to justify a major Scott catalog number. Additional details on the 2008 page. September 1: Spoke too soon on the plan for the Hebert's listing on the 2008 duck stamp. Turns out there is no Copyright single, either -- in fact, there are no marginal markings at all. It will be listed with the comment "No plate number." Additional details about all current issues appear on the 2008 page. AUGUST 2008 August 29: For the first time since they were introduced in 1934, this year's duck stamp has been printed without any plate numbers. The next edition of the Hebert's Catalog will list and price a Copyright single, but there are no plate numbers. Additional details about all current issues appear on the 2008 page. August 28: Additional plate numbers announced or reported for new 2008 issues. Details on the 2008 page. August 17: The 2009 U.S. stamp program has been announced. Additional stamps are expected, some to meet the rate change expected in April or May, and others because of the tradition of saving a surprise or two for the new year. Details on the 2009 page. August 13: The July/August issue of Plate Numbers is in the mail. The 160-lot mail auction closing date is September 15. August 10: Additional Scott Catalog numbers reported for new 2008 issues. Details on the 2008 page. JULY 2008 July 18: Additional Scott Catalog numbers reported for new 2008 issues. Details on the 2008 page. JUNE 2008 June 23: Additional images of early revenue plate numbers have been added to the Revenues page. In fact, there were so many that it necessitated splitting the web page into separate Early Revenues and Documentary Stamps pages. June 16: Additional Scott Catalog numbers reported for new 2008 issues. Details on the 2008 page. June 15: USPS has announced new plate numbers for upcoming rate change issues and commemoratives. Details on the 2008 page. June 5: The May/June issue of Plate Numbers is in the mail. The 160-lot mail auction closing date is July 15. MAY 2008 May 15: USPS has announced new plate numbers for upcoming rate change issues and commemoratives. Details on the 2008 page. APRIL 2008 April 27: USPS has announced new plate numbers for upcoming rate change issues and commemoratives. Details on the 2008 page. April 26: We continue to add plate number singles of the AMG issues, courtesy of APNSS member Wallace Cleland. Issues of the AMG in Italy are now available. April 25: A number of PNS images of precanceled postage dues have been added. Please let the Webmaster know if you can share additional precancel examples for other denominations. April 20: The recently announced water-activated pane of 100 Purple Hearts stamps becomes the first water-activated commemorative stamp since the 34¢ James Madison stamp in 2001. All the intervening ones have been self-adhesives. (Unless you consider the Purple Heart stamps as "regular issues" or "special stamps" closer to definitives due to their small size and the fact that they have been reissued for each rate change... in which case, we've had no water-activated commemoratives since 2001.) April 14: New plate numbers reported for new issues. Details on the 2008 page. April 13: APNSS member Wallace Cleland has graciously shared images of his award-winning Allied Military Government collection. The first Installment shows plate number singles (photographically cropped from larger multiples) of the AMG in France. April 5: The March/April issue of Plate Numbers is in the mail. The 160-lot mail auction closing date is May 15. April 1: New plate numbers and Scott catalog numbers reported for new issues. Details on the 2008 page. MARCH 2008 March 15: New plate number reported for the Avery (10¢) Banner bulk rate coil. Details on the 2007 page. March 11: New plate numbers and Scott catalog numbers reported for new issues. Details on the 2008 page. FEBRUARY 2008 February 26: Here are the new postal rates, effective May 12, 2008.
The timing of the international rate changes is coincidental; USPS can modify international rates at any time without requiring the approval of the Postal Rate Commission or Board of Governors.
February 1: The January/February issue of Plate Numbers is in the mail to our members. The 160-lot mail auction closing date is March 15. JANUARY 2008 January 15 - Reminder: Our web services aggressively filter what they believe is "spam." Sometimes, legitimate emails are caught up in this cycle. If you send an email message to the APNSS Secretary or another officer and don't get a prompt reply, please send it again. The way it works is: emails to our service (such as secretary at apnss dot org) are automatically forwarded to an actual email address (in my case, reb608y at yahoo dot com). Either our service or Yahoo might consider your email spam. Be sure to include APNSS in the subject line, and we can generally find it and respond. Note: all email addresses on our web site are intentionally not formatted, to thwart spammers. Their email "harvesting" programs and web crawlers typically search for the 'at' sign within an email address, and grab the text around it, which they then sell to disreputable types offering questionable pharmaceuticals, opportunities to help the family of a former Nigerian politician illegally transfer money using your personal bank account, dating services, refinancing opportunities, surveys and other scams. Don't fall for these scams! If you don't recognize the sender, or it's not something you asked to be sent to you, it's probably not a valid message. Just delete it. If it was an offer that sounded too good to be true, it probably was.... January 15: APNSS member Larry Cohen has discovered that some of the plate numbers used to print the 2¢ Harding Memorial stamp used the letter 'I' instead of the numeral '1' in the plate numbers. Due to the way the plates were produced, the same plate number (with either '1' or 'I') should appear consistently in all positions. We hope Larry will continue studying this issue and publish further details of his find. This discovery is over 80 years after the stamps were produced! Examples can be found on the Harding Memorial page. January 11: Plate number collector Kamran Iftikhar has reported finding new plate number V22222 on a booklet pane of the (41¢) Liberty Bell "Forever" stamps, Scott 4125a. It was originally issued with plate number V11111, and postal policy has been to use only one set of plate numbers unless there were significant design changes, despite protests from collectors. It is not clear if this is a mistake, if the USPS policy has been rescinded or modified, or there is some significant difference between stamps produced from the plate V11111 and plate V22222 varieties. January 10: Virtual Stamp Club members Mark Alan and Glenn Estus were the 10,000th and 10,001st visitors to the APNSS web site, www.apnss.org, since the "number of hits" counter was installed in May 2004 (we've been online since September 2003). No, we don't and can't track who visits and when! But when I saw that we were at 9995 or so, I let people on VSC know that if they hurried, they might be the 10,000th visitor, and they both let us know. A number of PNS-related questions, and many of our new members, come to us through our web site. New plate number 5591 reported on a full sheet of 400 of the imperforate 1¢ Franklin stamp, Scott 383. Additional details on the New Plates page.
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