NEXT MEETING

WESTMORELAND COUNTY PHILATELIC
SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
P.O. Box 76, Norvelt, PA 15674 - email: jkvaughn@wpa.net
Meeting: Second Sunday of the month at Rescue 8, North Huntingdon, PA
Website: http://www.muleshoepa.com/WCPS/WCPS.HTM
Volume 30 Number 4
April 2016
MEETING DATE
US New Issues
May 15
Shirley Temple - April 18
The next meeting of the stamp club will be May 15.
The May meeting is on the third Sunday to avoid
meeting on Mother's Day. Please bring cookies for
the table. The hall is open from 1 pm, the meeting
starts at 2:15 pm
On April 18, 2016, in
Los Angeles, CA,
the U.S. Postal
Service will issue
the Shirley Temple
stamp
(Forever
priced at the FirstClass Mail® rate) in
one design, in a
pressure-sensitive
adhesive
(PSA)
pane of 20 stamps.
The stamp will go
on sale nationwide
April 18, 2016. With
the 20th stamp in
the
Legends
of
Hollywood
series,
the U.S. Postal
Service
honors
actress and diplomat Shirley Temple Black (1928–
2014). As a child, Temple was the most famous film
star in the world; as an adult, Black had a
distinguished career in diplomacy, serving as a
delegate to the United Nations, U.S. ambassador to
Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and U.S. Chief of
Protocol. She received the Kennedy Center Honors in
1998 and a lifetime achievement award from the
Screen Actors Guild in 2006. The stamp art features
a painting by Tim O'Brien based on a 1935 still image
from Curly Top, one of her iconic movie roles. The
selvage features a publicity photo from the 1933
short film, Managed Money. The Shirley Temple
artwork is based on photos courtesy of Twentieth
Century Fox Film Corporation. The stamp pane
includes selvage and verso text. Art director Ethel
Kessler designed the stamp and pane. First day
address:
UPCOMING EVENTS
LANCOPEX 2016 – Friday, April 29, 10am – 5pm;
Saturday, April 30, 10am – 4pm; Farm & Home
Center, 1383 Arcadia Rd., Lancaster, PA. Sponsored
by the Lancaster County Philatelic Society, Contact:
Lou DiFelice, 717-572-3419, loudifelice@gmail.com.
20 dealers. Note that this show is Friday and
Saturday.
BUTLERPEX 2016 – Friday, May 6, 2016 10am –
5pm & Saturday, May 7, 2016; 10am – 4pm;
Tanglewood Senior Center, 10 Austin Ave., Lyndora,
PA. Sponsored by the Butler County Philatelic
Society.
Contact:
Tom
Sivak,
tomsstamps@zoominternet.net, 724-287-1931 13
dealers. Note that this show is Friday and
Saturday.
TRUMPEX 2016 - Saturday, May 14, 2016; 10am –
4pm; St. Demetrious Community Center, 3223
Atlantic NE, Warren, OH; Sponsored by the Warren
Area Stamp Club. Contact: Howard Lutz, Box 26,
Cortland, OH 44410, Phone: 330-282-2860, email:
howrex2@aol.com. 8 dealers.
WILKPEX Pictorial Cancel Honors
Steeler Rocky Blier
Shirley Temple Stamp
U.S. Postal Service
Attn: Marketing
7001 South Central Avenue, Room 307
Los Angeles, CA 90052-4200
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WESTMORELAND COUNTY PHILATELIC SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
Volume 30 Number 4
All orders must be postmarked by June 18, 2016.
There are eight philatelic products for this stamp
issue:
 Press Sheet with Die-cut, (print quantity
2,000).
 Keepsake.
 First-Day Cover.
 First-Day Cover Full Pane.
 Cancelled Full Pane.
 Digital Color Postmark.
 Framed Art.
 Ceremony Program.
No prices for these items are given.
April 2016
activity dropped off, so did mailing – which, in turn,
caused Postal Service revenues to drop off as well.
The Postal Service proposed – and was granted by
the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) – a 4.3
percent temporary, emergency price increase, also
known as an exigent surcharge. The surcharge went
into effect in January 2014 and is required to be
eliminated once the USPS recouped the estimated
revenue loss from the Great Recession. The postal
service estimates it will have recouped the losses
and plans to reduce prices on April 10, 2016. What
that means for mailers is that, unless Congress
intervenes to the contrary, the Postal Service will be
lowering rates an average of 4.3 percent across its
Mailing Services on April 10th.
USA Nonprofit - April 28
First-Class Mail prices will be adjusted as follows:
On April 28, 2016, in
Dulles, VA, the U.S.
Postal Service will
issue the USA nondenominated, nonprofit
organization stamp (5cent value), in one
design, in a pressure
sensitive
adhesive
(PSA) coil of 10,000.
The stamp will go on
sale nationwide April
28, 2016. USA, the new nondenominated, nonprofit
stamp, showcases the letters “USA” in blue
accompanied by a bright red star on a white
background. This patriotic design with full letterforms
and flourishes is a confident, playful, and celebratory
treatment of one of our most familiar abbreviations.
“NONPROFIT ORG” is printed across the bottom of
the stamp. The USA stamp will be issued in coils of
10,000. Antonio Alcalá served as the art director
and designed the stamp with Leslie Badani. First
day address:
Current
Mandated
Reduction
• Letters (1 oz.)
• Letters additional
ounces
• Letters to all
international destinations
49 cents
22 cents
47 cents
21 cents
$1.20
$1.15
• Postcards
35 cents
34 cents
Mail to Cuba Resumed
WASHINGTON, March 16 - Today the United States
Postal Service announced it resumed direct
transportation of mail service with Cuba for the first
time in more than 50 years.
"The U.S. Postal Service is pleased to participate in
the historic direct transportation of mail service with
Cuba," said Postmaster General and CEO Megan J.
Brennan. "Moving letter mail and package volume
directly between our countries will improve service for
businesses and consumers."
The types of mail customers in the U.S. can send to
Cuba include First-Class Mail International items,
such as postcards and letter size envelopes, FirstClass Package International Service items, Priority
Mail International Flat Rate Envelopes and Priority
Mail International Small Flat Rate Priced Boxes.
USA Nonprofit Stamp
Special Events
22403 Randolph Drive
Dulles, VA 20103-9998
All orders must be postmarked by June 28, 2016.
There is one philatelic product for this stamp issue:
 First-Day Cover.
New Scott Numbers Assigned
Scott
No.
5038
5058
USPS to Reduce Rates on April 10
You read that correctly: this April the U.S. Postal
Service will be reducing postage rates for Mailing
Services products, including First-Class Mail,
Standard Mail®, and Periodicals. Why a reduction?
Like much of the country, the Postal Service was hit
hard during the Great Recession. When economic
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