SOUVENIR SHEET A Six-Month Test Drive of Postcrossing.com Yields a Nice Stack of Worldwide Postcards JULY 2013 Web Site Makes It Easy to Get Global Mail with Real Stamps! Monthly News of the by David M. Frye Lincoln Stamp Club In the January issue of Souvenir Sheet, I 2013 OFFICERS wrote about Postcross- President: ing.com, a Web site Helen Marks (’13) Vice President: designed “… to allow Ken Pruess (’13) people to receive post- Secretary: cards from all over the David Frye (’13) world, for free.” Treasurer: After writing to Ron Ecklund (’13) suggest this might be Board Member: a great way for philat- Joel Johnson (’14) elists to receive some Board Member: intriguing mail with Carl Marks (’13) great stamps, I decided MEETINGS to give Postcrossing a try. After signing up, I Finland’s Europa Issue: A Postcrossing postcard is franked with one of two of The Club meets the Finland’s Europa issues of May 5, 2013, depicting a 1933 Volvo LV 70 mail car. first and third Thurs- began to send one post- days, 7:00–8:30 p.m. card at a time to the Here’s what my mailbox summary looks like name given me on each occasion. Postcrossing after six months of exchanging postcards: LOCATION assigns a unique code to each postcard, which Postcards Received St. Paul United you write on the card. This allows the recipi- Country Distance Travel Time Netherlands 7,286 km 11 days Methodist Church ent to register the postcard when it arrives Taiwan 11,723 km 27 days 1144 M St. and that allows the site to offer some pretty Lincoln, Neb. Finland 7,576 km 8 days amazing features that depend upon senders Canada 1,755 km 18 days and recipients posting those codes. CONTACT Finland 7,257 km 6 days Since I signed up, I’ve sent postcards to Rus- E-mail: China 10,458 km 11 days questions@lincoln- sia and China twice each, Germany, Belarus, Japan 9,963 km 13 days. stampclub.org the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Sign Up: www.postcrossing.com Web : August Program Features Questions and Tips for Discovering Answers www.lincolnstamp- club.org Mail: Do You Have Philatelic Questions? PO Box 57434 One of the great things about stamp collect- Cynthia Carlson, will help to pull together Lincoln, NE ing is that the more you dig into a topic, the some ideas about where to search for answers. 68505-7434 more questions arise. Sometimes, though, a Cynthia hopes for the program to focus on question can sit in front of you, taunting you, the sorts of questions that members of our AFFILIATION leaving you wondering where to turn to begin Club face as they expand their collections and The Club is an affili- ate of the American to search for an answer. explore new interests. Philatelic Society: The Club’s August program, “Do You Have To help her prepare for the program, please APS #0799-064882. Philatelic Questions? Learn How to Find send some questions to her at [email protected]. Answers to Expand Your Passion,” offered by Please bring a friend or relative to the meeting. p. 2 • Souvenir Sheet • July 2013 • Lincoln Stamp Club Complimentary July Exchange Copy of July ’13 The Club offers the following items at its monthly exchange. Payments may be made in cash or in The American personal checks made out to the Club. All items are donations to the Lincoln Stamp Club; proceeds benefit the Club’s general work. Philatelist Lot # Description Catalogue Final Buyer Available to • 01 Canada Sc. 845–846, M, bl. 4 $2.40 ______ ______ Club Member • 02 Canada Sc. 851–852, M, bl. 4 $2.40 ______ ______ Each month, the • 03 Canada Sc. 855, M, bl. 4 $1.20 ______ ______ Club receives a • 04 W. Germany Sc. 1440–1441, 2 pr. w/margin codes $6.00 ______ ______ sample issue of the American Philatelic • 05 W. Germany Sc. 1448, M $1.25 ______ ______ Society’s magazine, • 06 W. Germany Sc. B628–629, M $3.15 ______ ______ The American Philat- • 07 W. Germany Sc. B630–633, M, pl. no. single (B630) $5.30 ______ ______ elist. We encourage • 08 W. Germany Sc. B634–635, M, pr. $5.50 ______ ______ Club members who • 09 W. Germany Sc. B636–639, M $4.05 ______ ______ have not yet joined • 10 W. Germany Sc. B640, M $1.25 ______ ______ APS to take a copy, give it a good look- • 11 W. Germany—Berlin Sc. 9NB231, M, pl. no. single $1.25 ______ ______ through, and give • 12 Great Britain Sc. 1024, M, pr. $2.10 ______ ______ some consideration • 13 Netherlands Sc. 594–596, M $1.70 ______ ______ to joining APS. • 14 Netherlands Sc. 599, M $0.65 ______ ______ If you typically • 15 Netherlands Sc. B558a, M, min. sht., 2 ea. B556–558 $4.50 ______ ______ do not attend Club • 16 Netherlands Sc. B560–563, M $3.65 ______ ______ meetings and you are not already a mem- • 17 Netherlands Sc. B564, M $0.95 ______ ______ ber of APS and you • 18 Netherlands Sc. B592a, M, bklt., 4 B589+2 B592 $5.50 ______ ______ are the first one to • 19 U.S. Sc. C87, M, w/Mr. ZIP (USE ZIP CODE) $0.35 ______ ______ contact David Frye, • 20 U.S. Sc. C89, M, w/MAIL EARLY IN THE DAY $0.50 ______ ______ you will receive this • 21 U.S. Sc. UC48 w/1282, UC 50, UC 53, UC 56, unused, folded, $1.04 face month’s copy of the magazine by mail. — ______ ______ Here is his contact • 22 U.S. Sc. UC 51 w/1585x2, UC 56 x2, unused, unfolded, $0.90 face information: — ______ ______ David Frye • 23 U.S. Sc. U597, M $0.40 ______ ______ 5600 SW 80th Ct. Denton, NE 68339 • 24 U.S. Sc. UX65, M $0.25 ______ ______ 402.797.7207 • 25 U.S. Sc. UX76, M $0.40 ______ ______ questions@lincoln- • 26 U.S. Sc. UX77, M $0.30 ______ ______ stampclub.org. • 27 U.S. Sc. UX78, M $0.30 ______ ______ In this issue: § “Pasteup Usage of • 28 U.S. Sc. UX 83, M $0.25 ______ ______ Western Express • 29 U.S. Sc. UX85, M $0.25 ______ ______ Franks” • 30 U.S. Sc. UXC17, M $1.00 ______ ______ § “Heligoland: Zan- “A Commemorative in Conflict: The Fort Sumter Issue of 1961” zibar, Birds, Ro- mantics, Quantum Borrowing a Copy of the Postal History Journal, June 2013 Mechanics, and The June 2013 issue ofThe Postal History Buy American Movement of 1932–1933 and Atomic Bombs” Journal is available for members to borrow. reviews of recent literature and summaries of § “The Rheumato- David Frye’s article on the Fort Sumter Issue postal history appearing in other journals. See logic Philatelist.” of 1961 appears, along with an article on the David Frye if you are interested. Lincoln Stamp Club • July 2013 • Souvenir Sheet • p. 3 2012 Report Logs Progress in Reducing the Environmental Impact of Postal Service Operations Trending Green: USPS Reports Advances in Sustainability Efforts WASHINGTON — Demonstrating continued progress after five years of annual corporate sustainability report- ing, the U.S. Postal Service recently released its 2012 Annual Sustainabil- ity Report, highlighting accomplish- ments including reductions in green- house gas emissions, solid waste and facility energy use. The Postal Service reported a 9.9 percent decrease, or 1.3 million metric tons, in greenhouse gas (GHG) emis- sions since 2008—nearly equivalent to removing 270,000 passenger vehicles from the road for a year. The goal is to reduce GHG emissions by 20 per- cent by fiscal year 2020. In addition, the Postal Service decreased facility energy use by 34 percent since 2003, achieving the goal of a 30 percent reduction by 2015. “The Postal Service continues to make sustainability progress that is not only the right thing to do for the environment, but is right for our busi- ness,” said Chief Sustainability Officer “The Postal Service continues to make sustainability progress Thomas G. Day. “We are exceeding that is not only the right thing to do for the environment, but targets in key areas and are working to is right for our business.” —Thomas G. Day, USPS CSO improve efforts across the organiza- tion every day.” Service fleet but continues to align many objec- Other key highlights from the year § Decreasing 11 trillion British tives to follow the scorecard. include: thermal units (Btu) from facility The Postal Service has been rec- § Registering 800 Lean Green energy use since 2003. ognized for several environmental Teams of employees who adopt “Sustainability progress requires the awards, including the 2012 Green- low- and no-cost green practices commitment of all postal employees Gov Presidential award, a 2012 EPA in their facilities in more than 31,000 facilities,” Day WasteWise recognition award and § Diverting 48 percent of solid said. “By incorporating these prin- most recently, 10 Federal Green waste to recycling, which gener- ciples into our day-to-day work as Challenge awards. ated a savings of $25 million in well as our strategic planning, we will Visit www.usps.com/green and the waste hauling and generated $23.8 continue to achieve our goals.” USPS Green Newsroom to learn million in revenue The Postal Service also released more about the Postal Service’s sus- § Issuing 15 stamps in the Earth- its 2013 Office of Management and tainability initiatives. scapes stamp collection, providing Budget Sustainability and Energy The 2012 Annual Sustainabil- a reminder that the environment Scorecard.