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.
The July 2012 issue features:- "Delivered by Royal Mail" cancellations and PPIs
- Mail Centre Packet Stamps, 1980-2011 (Pt 2 Coventry to Kingston)
- More 1971 Decimal First Day Covers
- 1930s Telephone Slogans
- Month Abbreviations in Postmarks
- More Inkjet Cancellations from Intelligent Letter Sorting Machines
Our October 2012 issue included - Demise of UK 'Paquebot' (posted at sea) cancellations
- Review of the new BPS book 'Krag Machine Postmarks'
- Olympic & Paralympic postmarks from London 2012
- Changes to surcharging of International mail
- Mail Centre Packet Stamps, 1980-2011 (Part 3)
- Post Office network report, 2011-12
2013 commenced with the January edition, which includes: - Mail Centre Packet Stamps, 1980-2011 (Part 4)
- Readers' queries on two Victorian cancellations and a mystery machine of 1926.
- Changes in April 2013 to Royal Mail's Packet and Parcel services
- Isle of Man News
- Redirection Labels
- More 1971 Decimal First Day Covers
- Discovery of an unrecorded 1993 Windsor Scout & Guide Slogan
A cumulative index to the BPS Quarterly Bulletin/Journal from 1958 to 2007 available from the Downloads page, as well as the annual Indexes for 2008 to 2012.
Page updated 4th February 2013
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