Feb 15, 2016 | Sequoia Stamp Club
By: John Corwin The above picture shows two covers that I entered in our stamp club’s “Cover Contest” in October, 2014. I wasn’t sure what category to enter them in, and so I decided to try “Oldest” and “Traveled the...
Feb 12, 2016 | Sequoia Stamp Club
(to the tune of ‘The Old Grey Mare’) by Ken Perkins “The new data-rich environment is a significant step forward in the tracking of letter mail and will help improve both service and efficiency.” So says a 2007 document issued by the US Postal...
Feb 1, 2016 | Sequoia Stamp Club
Due in part to some generous donations over the past few years, the Sequoia Stamp club finds itself in a strong financial position. A committee was formed to recommend how we might share some of our good fortune with others. Guidelines used by the committee were to...
Jan 16, 2016 | Sequoia Stamp Club
By Marsha Brandsdorfer In A History of America in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps, author Chris West explains that before stamps, postage was paid by recipients. In 1840, England introduced the Penny Black stamp as a means for the sender to prepay the postage instead. The...
Jan 2, 2016 | Club Photos
Club officers for 2016. Front: John Corwin (secretary), Craig Butterworth (president), and Ken Perkins (director). Back row: Jim Mosso (director), Kjell Enander (director), Jim Giacomazzi (vice president), and Richard Griffone (treasurer). At the meeting on Nov. 24,...
