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:- Horizon Labels - Changes to Post Office Counter Postage Labels
- Post and Go - Self-Service Machines
- PO Changes - Post Office branch closures
and the opening of "PO Essentials/PO Local" outlets and Travel Kiosks
- SCMs - New Stamp Cancelling Machines and a Flats Cancelling Machine
We started 2011 - the centenary year of official airmail services - with the January issue, featuring:
- Airmail labels
- Aerodrome and Airport datestamps
- Fortieth Anniversary of Decimalisation
- Mail Centre changes
- Christmas Postmarks in Wales, 2010
- Official & Postage Paid Postmarks, 1887-1924
Our April 2011 issue contained:
- "Express" labels, shown in colour on the cover
- Airway Letter Service
- Railex Service 1934-1979
- Royal Mail Offices Cancelling Mail - a current list
- Christmas 2010 reserve cancelling machines
- Post & Go news
- Gatwick Airport handstamps
July 2011's BPS Journal features: - "Condition 9 Access Mail Received Out of Course" handstamps
- Decimal FDCs of 1971
- Pre-war Airmail Promotions
- Scottish "Additional Halfpenny" Mail Tax
October 2011's Journal features: - Isle of Man 'Pay & Post' Machines
- Glastonbury Festival cachet
- London EC cancelling machine trial, 1923
- Horizon Labels - new accounting codes
- Post & Go - including Stampex machines
- 'Do Not Surcharge' handstamps on meter items
- News of Mail Centre changes
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 2010. The 2011 index will be added soon.
Page updated 26th October 2011
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