Announcements

BuckaCover upload coming Tuesday July 29!
July 21, 2008

6,000 new covers coming to the BuckaCover inventory at 3:00pm EDT Tuesday July 29.
Here are a few highlights:
a huge batch of post-Castro Cuba FDCs - lots of seldom seen topicals!
More Rotary Club topicals
Check US event covers (post 1950) for a whole run of Inauguration covers from Eisenhower to Reagan

116 categories represented. Here are the top 20 with the most covers:

Africa - British influence (not RSA) ( 181 )
Africa - French influence ( 75 )
Africa - Other countries ( 140 )
Australia Philatelic Covers (FDCs etc.) ( 66 )
Cuba ( 399 )
Czechoslovakia First Day ( 70 )
France Philatelic Covers (FDC etc) ( 70 )
Germany - DDR ( 434 )
Germany Philatelic Covers (FDCs etc) ( 79 )
Italy Philatelic covers (FDC etc.) ( 89 )
Japan First Day ( 83 )
Topical - Rotary Club ( 158 )
Topical - Ships ( 148 )
USA Event Covers 2 - 1950 and later ( 102 )
USA First Day - Airmail ( 336 )
USA First Day 2 - 1940s ( 205 )
USA First Day 5- 1970s ( 267 )
USA miscellaneous ( 74 )
USA Space event ( 142 )
Vatican ( 312 )

If you are on our mailing list, you will receive a complete list of categories and number of new covers for each, the day before the upload. Join our mailing list now.

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We are on a new server!
March 2, 2008

If you are one of our customers who likes to be "first in the door", you may have noticed that our server was struggling to keep up with the demand in the first couple of hours after a BuckaCover upload recently. It was like too big a crowd at the opening of a stamp show -- everybody jossling each other out of the way, and nobody getting the attention they wanted!

To fix the problem, we just moved to a brand new server. This one should be be able to keep up. It has four times the computing power of our old one, a faster hard drive and double the memory.

Roy had to re-write some of our code for the new server, so there is a chance some bugs may appear in the software. If you encounter any strange or unusual behaviour on the site, please be sure to let us know, with as much detail as possible.

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Cover Box Upload Feb. 20!
February 19, 2008

Wednesday February 20, we added 1,000 new covers to our CoverBox inventory (the premium inventory).
Highlights included:
Peru - a really nice lot of 1930s airmails, mostly to Europe, many registered
Korea - large batch of 1960s-70s souvenir sheet FDCs
A large batch of US foreign Service covers from many countries c1937 nearly all with letter contents responding to a request for used stamps. Do a search for "Foreign Service".
Dear Doctor postcards - Abbott Labs - a nice run from one Doctor's estate (Search for "Dear Doctor" or "Abbott")
Early GB, especially 1880s-90s to European and US destinations. Also quite a few registered from c1900-20s
Ships: quite a selection of ship post cards and paquebot cancels (search for "ship paquebot" and leave the "Match Any" button checked.

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