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Message from the Chairman 2010 Message from the Chairman 2008 Message from the Chairman 2006 Message from the Secretary 2006 Message from the President 2005 Message from the Secretary 2005 Message from the President 2003 Message from the Secretary 2003 Message from the President 2002 Message from the Secretary 2002 Spring 2002 Meeting of the UPSS |
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Commission Report 2008 – 2010 to the FIP Congress Stephen D. Schumann This past biannual period has seen much progress in the Postal Stationery Commission in many areas including newly qualified postal stationery jurors, email addresses of commission delegates, database of postal stationery awards for the past 10 years both by exhibit and by exhibition and a new Power Point presentation on exhibiting and judging postal stationery plus the revision and updating of the Guidelines. Credit for the database creation and the Power Point presentation must go to my hard working, always ready to help Secretary, Lars Engelbrecht. Thank you Lars. During the past 2 years your Chairman has served on four USA national juries, NOJEX, FLOREX, ROSSICAPEX and Garfield-Perry(twice as Jury Chairman) and at two regional juries, HOUPEX and Sacapex (both times as Jury Chairman). This coming September I will be Jury Chairman at the MILCOPEX national exhibition in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At several of the exhibitions above I conducted informal seminars on the exhibiting and judging of postal stationery. At the FIP/Continental level I served on the LONDON 2010 jury as Team Leader in Postal Stationery and Team Member in Postal History- Americas. I have been invited to serve on the jury of JOBURG 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa, October 27-31 and have ben asked to give a seminar on exhibiting and judging on 31 October. I exhibited at China 2009 where I received 96 points, LG for my exhibit of "New Zealand Postal Stationery 1876-1940". I showed the same exhibit at the ARIPEX national exhibition in 2010, and received the reserve Grand Award. The Portugal 2010 Committee has allotted 3 hours for the meeting of the commission so we will have a Power Point presentation on exhibiting and judging postal stationery, practice judging of two exhibits and presentations on two aspects of Portuguese postal stationery. Newly qualified Postal Stationery Jurors: Dr. Ross Towle (USA)- ISRAEL 2008 Mr. Lars Engelbrecht (Denmark)- EFIRO 2008 Mr. Ian McMahon (Australia)- China 2009 Mr. Mike Smith (United Kingdom)- LONDON 2010 We wish them a long and successful time in judging postal stationery. The following Bureau Members have advised me of their activities: Secretary Lars Engelbrecht Updating the list of delegates with email addresses Three newsletters (in total 63 pages) sent to delegates, jurors, FIP members and executives. The newsletter consists of articles, exhibit results, book reviews and news from 23 delegates Database of all postal stationery exhibit results at international exhibitions (In total 800 registrations). This database has been sent to the delegates, jurors and is available on our website New 36 page PowerPoint presentation on exhibiting and judging postal stationery exhibits is now available on our website Presentation with Alan Huggins at FIP Seminar in London in November 2009 Judging at London 2010 Start-up of revising the regulation guidelines Ian McMahon Presented the Australian Philatelic Federation Postal Stationery Exhibiting Seminar (based on the FIP Postal Stationery Commission seminar presentation) at Melbourne Stampshow 2009 which was held at the Melbourne Tennis Centre Melbourne 23 to 26 July 2009. The seminar was attended by approximately 20 people. Member of the Jury at the FIAP exhibition Jakarta 2008 Jakarta, Indonesia held 23 - 25 October 2008 FIP apprentice Postal Stationery juror at China 2009 which was held from 10 - 16 April 2009 in Luoyang, Henan, China. Jury member Canberra Stampshow 2010, Canberra 12 to 14 March 2010 Jury member Melbourne Stampshow 2009, Melbourne 23 to 26 July 2009. Philakorea 2009 Seoul Korea FIAP 30 July - 4 August 2009 Postal Stationery of Canada Issued during the Reign of King George VI Large Vermeil Hong Kong 2009 Hong Kong FIAP 14 - 17 May 2009 Listing of Australian Non-Denominated and Flat Rate Postal Stationery [Literature] Silver-Bronze Sunstamp 2008 Brisbane 22 - 24 August 2008 Envelopes and Postcards of Canada Large Vermeil Tarapex 2008 New Plymouth 7-9th November 2008 New Zealand Postal Stationery Large Vermeil Timpex 2009 Timaru, New Zealand 16 - 18 October 2009 Queen Elizabeth II postal stationery of Canada Large Silver He continues to be Chair of the Postal Stationery Society of Australia and editor of its publication, the Postal Stationery Collector. Our Webmaster continues to do excellent work, uploading revised databases and presentations as soon as they are submitted. I recommend that everyone go to www.postalstationery.org to view the outstanding website that he has developed. Respectfully submitted, Stephen D. Schumann
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