Archived AP 2008 Articles

President's ColumnDecember -- Spotlights, Predictions, FIAF, a Confirmation, and a Report
November -- Dedicated to Nick
October 2008 -- StampShow Success
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
Executive Director's ColumnsDecember - Happy Holidays!
November -- Nicholas G. Carter
Celebrate the Hobby at the APC in October
Fall Is Here
Welcome to StampShow!
See You in Hartford!
Raise the Roof!
June at the APC
Thank You!
Thank You, Charlotte!
'And the Survey Says'
Happy New Year!

Featured ArticlesPoinsettia: The December Flower on Stamps - by Joan Klimchalk
Embellishments with a Purpose: Overprints, Surcharges, et al. - by Louis E. Repeta
Dracula - by Thomas Lera
America's First Gold Rush - by Tony L. Crumbley
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition and The Mail - by Dr. Elizabeth J. Nettles and David L. Straight
The Transcontinental Railroad - James W. Milgram M.D.
Revenue Stamps, Financing the Civil War - Gary Giroux
The Day That Astronaut John Glenn and the U.S. Postal Department Shook the World - Douglas A. Kelsey
Summer and Winter Resort Post Offices of the United States, 1891-1966 - Chester M. Smith Jr.
Iraq Railway Post, 1928-c1942 - Rainer Fuchs

Sales Talk
Sales Division Colonies
The Typical topical Topics
Circuits a Hit at StampShow
Finding Interest Areas on Our Circuit List
Circuit Program Anniversary
Circuits at StampShow
NEW! E-Circuits
Summer Saturday Openings
StampStore Submissions
For Our Foreign Members
Weighty Issues
The Stamp Stores of the APS
Collecting Coast to CoastTrue Photostamps Date Back Beyond 2004
Flyspecking Isn't Just for Specialists
Wayne's Chamber of Philatelic Horrors
Resurrected Real Pony Express Service
Special Covers Mark Special and Not-So-Special Events
The Search for Quivera... or an excuse to create a cover
'Received in Package Box Collection'
April Flowers: A Bouquet of Bogus EFOs
Double Your Collecting Pleasure
EFOs May Either Answer or Raise Questions
EFOs - A Great Part of Philatelic Alphabet Soup

Exploring Back-of-the-BookNon-Partisan Covers
Seeds, Dead Letters, and Newspapers
Taxing Philatelists: When Semi-Postals Are Not Enough
Taxing Postcards
Playing Post Office
Newspaper Stamps
Newspapers as Postage Due Mail
Newspaper Receipt Books in Canada and the United States
'Lies Dead in This Office'

Worldwide in a NutshellFrench Polynesia
The Bailiwick of Jersey
Georgia
Aitutaki
The Grenadines of St. Vincent
Dominica
Cook Islands
Isle of Man
Penrhyn
The Aland Islands
St. Pierre & Miquelon