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Letters to the EditorRegarding Ken Gilbert’s article in the March andApril 2020 Specialist, pp. 75-79, and 104-113. It hasbeen a long time since something new – not just arehash of a catalog everyone owns – and ORIGINALAND informative AND interesting.GOOD WORK!!!Dr. Jason ManchesterRe: Bruce Wright’s German Gem item in the April Specialist, I amnot looking to nitpick or belittle the significance of his Schalburg sheet.However I would like to point out for the sake of accuracy that theSchalburgs were a private non-postal issue apparently created to be soldto raise funds for the Danish Nazi Party. They had no postal validity andare therefore more properly classified as labels rather than stamps.Whether the Schalburgs ever appeared on any Feldpost coversas did the Belgian and French Legion private issues, I can not say.Whether singles or pairs of Schalburg labels are fairly common as BruceWright believes may be open to question, based on the relatively highprices presumably genuine examples bring in auctions. Unfortunatelywhat are fairly common are the high number of forgeries that are outthere.Complicating matters, according to Michel the German BPP willnot authenticate these issues.Martin Blumenthalweisensel01@gmail.comHave a correction or reaction?Want to respond to an article?Write a letter to the editor!148German Postal Specialist
President’s MessageRudi AndersAnnual Meeting ZOOMCaptain Kirk ordered the Enterprise slowed from warp speed as theship entered the orbit of the third planet from its distant sun. The giantscreen in front of him flickered and revealed the face of a weary-lookingcommander quarantined at the Federation’s only remaining outposton the planet’s surface. Ever optimistic, Kirk responded with a greeting:“Thanks for zooming in.”200 years earlier - At the time of writing this message, Jerry Jensen,past President of the GPS, and I are planning to use Zoom* to hold the2020 GPS Annual Board meeting. We hope that the meeting will takeplace by mid-May. Why are we doing this? In the very unlikely eventthat Covid-19 will have disappeared later this year, there is no guaranteethat we can hold a ‘regular’ meeting this year. But even if that werethe case, a meeting in May is needed in order to inform the Board of ourfinances, present a budget, and plan for next year’s GPS elections. Someof this could be done by email, but Zoom allows us to discuss issuesand forge a consensus for future action in a meeting-like environment.Beyond that, we need to be prepared to hold other Zoom meetings –perhaps quarterly – to more effectively communicate.Does the GPS face an immediate crisis? NO. But we must lookbeyond the next few months and be nimble enough to respond quicklyif issues arise. Let’s focus on two issues: Membership and financialsolvency.Membership:I just looked at the April mailing list and find we’re mailing ‘paper’Specialists to 686 person/entities. Add in the digital Specialists we’reover 700 members. (We have 19 complimentary memberships – nineof these are to the German Federation leadership per agreement reachin 2019). Before getting too deeply into the weeds, what matters: howmany paying members? Answer: 643 regular and 33 life members. (Thisincludes 39 foreign members – some are life members). Assuming weremain at same levels we would expect to receive dues of ca. $28,000.May 2020 149
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