{"id":1184,"date":"2025-11-13T16:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/?page_id=1184"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:00:35","slug":"how-tos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/how-tos\/","title":{"rendered":"How-To&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Military Postal History Society is very proud of the content of our website. We believe that we are supplying rich content to collectors and researchers. With this &#8220;richness&#8221; comes complexity, sorry to say. The links on this page should help you find what you are looking for on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Do I Join the MPHS?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/membership\">Try our &#8216;membership&#8217; page<\/a>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Do I Find Publications of the MPHS?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/publications.html\">Try the &#8216;publications&#8217; page set<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/pubs2\/index.php\">Search for publications of interest<\/a>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Do I &#8216;Log In&#8217; to the MPHS website?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A login username\/password is only needed for certain member-only resources, such as the latest <em>Journal<\/em> newsletter. The vast majority of the website content is freely available for education and research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The members-only password is changed quarterly, with each <em>Journal<\/em> issue, and it stays in place for the entire quarter. Members receive an email message announcing the new password and publication of the <em>Journal<\/em>. It is <strong>STRONGLY<\/strong> suggested that members retain that email content, should they need to access the members-only area of the website during that quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MPHS does <strong>not<\/strong> offer or maintain individual login usernames\/passwords, but there has been recent pressure by members and non-members to provide this type of login. Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/regarding_passwords.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this page which requests help for, and discusses the  issues of, such a change<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Do I Find Back Issues of the <em>Journal<\/em> (<em>Bulletin<\/em>)?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Society webpage maintains searchable PDF files of all known back issues (from 1937, up to 5 years previous to current), and makes them freely available to the educational and research community. These files are best accessed using:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/INDEX\">a set of master INDEX and listings of Bulletin contents<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/B\">Text search of all Bulletins<\/a>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Do I Find &#8216;ANYTHING&#8217; on the Website?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/search.html\">Use the &#8216;search&#8217; provided of the entire website<\/a>. (Search provided thanks to Google)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Military Postal History Society is very proud of the content of our website. We believe that we are supplying rich content to collectors and researchers. With this &#8220;richness&#8221; comes complexity, sorry to say. The links on this page should help you find what you are looking for on our website. How Do I Join &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/how-tos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read the full post &rarr;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;How-To&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1184\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}