15 societies meet at Philatex

WITH 15 society meetings on the Saturday, the 110 or so dealers at Philatex should experience a busy finale to the three-day Philatex International Stamp & Cover Show on October 29.
About a fifth of dealers attending are from overseas, the biggest contingents being from the USA (seven) and Australia (six) ...

De La Rue marks 150th anniversary of stamp production

STAMP printers De La Rue Security Print produced this commemorative cover to mark the 150th anniversary of stamp printing on July 31 2005.

It shows the first stamp De La Rue printed - the GB 4d carmine on blued paper, which was also depicted on the 1/6 Philympia stamp of 1970. It is postmarked in Dunstable, the home of De La Rue's stamp printing works. Over the years it has acquired other stamp printers ...

Trafalgar sandwiched by Cricket and Christmas

Jersey's 2006 programme

JERSEY Post has announced 11 stamp issues for next year starting on January 6 with a 175th Anniversary of the Royal Militia set depicting uniforms ...

Romania's new currency stamps

ON the day Romania redenominated its currency Romfilatelia issued a complete new set of 20 definitive stamps comprising two designs of ten values in se tenant pairs. The old currency shed four zeroes so that 10,000 old lei became one new leu, which is subdivided into 100 bani. At the time of writing the exchange rate is approximately 5.14 to £1, 2.85 to US$1, 3.48 to €1 ...

'Photostamp' software

SOFTWARE is now available from Safe Albums (UK) Ltd that will enable post office philatelic bureaux to put a collector’s own colour photo image on to pre-printed stamp sheets provided by their security printer ...

Tsunami post offices back in business

LATEST edition received (April/May/June 2005) of the UPU's Union Postale reports that the countries hardest hit by the December 2004 tsunami in South Asia - Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Maldives - are now purchasing new postal equipment for rebuilt and refurbished post offices ...

Also this month

South-east Asia stamp odyssey

Peter McBride reports from Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

At least one business in five failing to claim rate relief

ONE in five businesses across England have not applied for a reduction in their business rate bills even though they are entitled to do so according to new research by the Federation of Small Businesses ...

Please read this!

OUR thanks to APTA which distributed this warning to its members in early September.

This has come from solicitors in Melbourne (a very big company) who themselves have been caught and is a warning to us all. By understanding how the VISA and MasterCard telephone credit card scam works, you'll be better prepared to protect yourself. The scam works like this:

Note, the callers do not ask for your card number; they already have it ...

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