From Analog to Digital

An article on the change from paper postage stamps to digitally generated postage.

The future will show if the digital stamp will be “adopted” too, like the machines were, eventually by a new category of stamp fans, who will possibly proudly call themselves Digital stamp collectors.

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24-Cents Inverted Jenny Stamps

Stamp Collecting in an E-Mail Age

An older New York Times article by Sandeep Junnarkar describes Stamp Collecting in an E-Mail Age.

Many enthusiasts worry that the pastime may slowly fade in the blare of video games, satellite television and iPods. But for all its emphasis on paper, ink and glue, stamp collecting has found new life in the digital age.

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Selling the Air Mail Service

The British Postal Museum & Archive has a new posting – Selling the Air Mail Service.

With the rapid development of Air Mail services from the 1920s onwards, the Post Office was faced with the challenge of marketing the concept to the British public. Brigadier General Sir Frederic Williamson, Director of Postal Services, summed up the problem in a lecture to the Post Office Telephone and Telegraph Society of London in November 1933 (POST 50/24, p 14): “the British user of the Postal service is extremely conservative” “it takes a long time and a considerable amount of persuasion to induce him to take up readily or on a large scale any new service” “what is essential in a new service such as this is to bring its advantages under the notice of those who are likely to use it”..