Machine Cancel Society Selected Articles -- All

February 26, 2011

Links to All Machine Cancel Forum Selected Articles

As a service to postal history collectors, as well as potential members of the Machine Cancel Society, we have used our website to post a number of articles previously published in the Machine Cancel Forum. If you find these articles interesting, please consider joining our Society.

Note that some of the research material for the following articles includes data supplied through the United States Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which may be of interest to researchers interested in many aspects of United States postal history and mail handling.

A Sample Issue of the October 1999 Machine Cancel Forum

Cub Scouts Involved in Stamp Collecting [PDF file]

Encourage Youth to Collect [PDF file]

The Facer-Canceller Revolution [PDF file]

Mail Handling Machines in the "Space Age" [PDF file]

U. S. Army Postal Machines of the Second World War era. [PDF]

Milam-Holmes cancellations and history [PDF].
Also available as a web page.

Automating the Mail Forwarding Process
(published by The Auxiliary Markings Club)

U.S. government background information for the above article.

Return-To-Sender spray markings used in Texas [PDF].
or webpage.

The Rest of the Story from the January 2005 MCF.

U.S. Flag Cancel from the January 2005 MCF.

New Doremus From Kankakee? from the April 2005 MCF.