Members should be aware that the Collectors Club will be offering Zoom access to a presentation about mail services during the U. S. Civil War. Wednesday, November 4th in person at the Collectors Club as well as online via Zoom The American Civil War: Suspended Mail Services Across the Line Presented by Daniel Knowles President, …
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Plans are forming for Westpex in 2027. Exhibit entry forms are now available. MPHS will be a “convening society” at WESTPEX, April 23-25, 2007 in San Francisco. We will hold our annual meeting, host presentations and sponsor exhibits of military/war postal history material. Roger Santala: rogrmt@gmail.comwill be coordinating our activities. If you would like to …
MILCOPEX took place in September 2026. Prior to, and during the event, the organizers lined up many excellent Zoom video presentations that included military postal history (see below). Through 2026, they actively soliciting “one-page” exhibits that were displayed at the show, as well as on their website. The competition ended with the closing of the …
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The fourth Journal of 2026 has been mailed to members, who have paid for a paper copy. A PDF version of the Journal is now available for download. All paid members should have received a bulk e-mail that includes a direct (temporary) download link for the PDF file. To access the Journal file through the …
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Editor NEEDED! MPHS is starting a major project to find a new Editor for our newsletter. Dann is retiring (again!). Even if you don’t have the time or expertise, if you KNOW anyone who could assist our Society, please contact Editor Dann Mayo. The Journal is the vital lifeblood of this Society; without it, we …
Searchable electronic (PDF) copies of nearly all of the back issues of the Bulletin are now available for download by the general public. Issues of the Bulletin/Journal from the most recent 5 years, however, are only available to MPHS MEMBERS. Recently, the Society has made all of the back issues text-searchable. Text Searching Across ALL …
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As usual the Military Postal History Society was actively engaged in another great philatelic show. In addition to strong attendance by our members, we set up and manned a great booth throughout the show. Booth arrangements were planned and executed by Bob Grey, Dave Kent, and Fred Reynolds. The American Air Mail Society invited us to share …
Long-time contributor Jerry Miller has authored a monograph: American Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1923. The monograph (7th publication of the new series) has just been published by the Society. NOTE that members of the MPHS who have specified a desired format (paper book vs PDF e-document) will be notified when their copy becomes available. Non-members, …
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An Zoom presentation by Steven Berlin. Members of the MPHS are familiar with Mr. Berlin’s excellent presentation on this subject. We have previously placed the content of his presentation on our website at: https://militaryphs.org/presentations/mail_robbery/index.html The good news is that Mr. Berlin repeated this presentation for the Collectors Club on April 15, 2026. Even though this …
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