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The BPS Journal is published in
January, April, July and October. (Until January 2007, it was known as the BPS
Quarterly Bulletin.)
Regular features include news about handstamps, stamp cancelling machines (both
die-based and inkjet), slogan postmarks, special event postmarks, postal labels
and instructional or explanatory markings, Post Office openings and closures,
computer-printed postage labels, and PPIs (printed postage impressions) of
Royal Mail and of rival mail companies.
News about developments between quarterly issues of the Journal will be
published on the News pages of this website. Current "News" pages are
titled:- Postage Labels - Changes to UK Postage Labels and to 'Post and Go' self-service
machines
- PO Changes - Post Office branch closures
and the opening of "PO Essentials" outlets and Travel Kiosks
- SCMs - New Stamp Cancelling Machines and a Flats Cancelling Machine
The January 2009 issue of the Journal
includes articles about:
- Post Office Essentials limited service branches
- Repair Tapes for Damaged Packets
- Machine News, including new Baumann Stamp Cancelling Machines
and a NEC Flats Cancelling Machine
- Postmarks of Olympia
- Llandeilo Mobile PO
- Post Office Closures
The April 2009 Journal features:
- Christmas 2008 Cancelling Machine dies
- Maritime Mail Handstamps of London IS
- Registration Labels, 1972-1984
- Mobile Post Offices in Wales
- Post & Go developments
- Slogan Postmarks, Sept. 2008 to Feb. 2009
In the July 2009 issue, we include:
- "Post & Go" Updates
- Gold Machin "Horizon" Counter Postage Label Trial
- Registration Labels - Large "Type D" Labels
- Krag Cancelling Machines - Withdrawal
- Response Services (Business Reply and Freepost)
- "In Other Words" - Reviews of Postmark-related items in other journals
- Special Event Postmarks, Jan. to May 2009
The October 2009 issue features:
- "Post & Go" Locations, Installation Dates and Printing Varieties and Errors
- Norwich and Croydon Postal Code Slogans and Labels
- Hovercraft - a Postmark Theme
- Isle of Wight Post Offices and Postmarks
- Welsh Mobile Post Offices
- Listings of Recent Slogans and Special Event Handstamps
A cumulative index to the BPS Quarterly Bulletin/Journal from 1958 to 2007 is
now available from the Downloads page, as well as the Index for 2008.
Page updated 29th October 2009
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