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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR lettertotheeditor@stamps.org Missing the APEX I've been an APS member for many years. I read The American Philatelist from cover to cover monthly and I’m inspired by it. Wendy Masorti had some nice thoughts to share with her recent Buy and Sell column in the November issue (“APS Advice: Self Grading is not recommended”). I agree with most of it. But why on earth would Wendy recommend that you send your item off “to Professional Stamp Experts (PSE) and have it officially graded” when she works for the American Philatelic Society? APEX − the American Philatelic Expertizing Service − has been our society’s expertizing service since 1903. It has served our community, this nation’s philatelists, with unquestionable authority and integrity for nearly 116 years. I believe in APEX. So should every stamp collector that reads my letter. So should Wendy. Play for our team, Wendy. David Saks Memphis, Tennessee From the Director of APS Sales Unit: While I appreciate Mr. Saks' comments and concern, I want to assure everyone that APEX is our first choice for expertizing of stamps. If my article was in reference to the authentication of stamps, of course APEX would have been the main focus. However, the article referenced grading and APEX does not offer this service. Professional Stamp Experts (PSE), the Philatelic Foundation, and Professional Stamp Authentication and Grading (PSAG) offer grading of stamps and I made reference to only one of those – in hindsight, I should have mentioned all three. Perhaps I should have clarified in my article that APEX does not grade and that is why I recommended an outside service. Deaf vs. Hearing Impaired Honored on this 1983 stamp (Scott 1861), Thomas H. Gallaudet co-founded the Hartford, Connecticut, School for the Deaf. Catching up on my reading, I just read the October 2018 issue of The American Philatelist and I cringed when I saw my Letter to the Editor on page 924 (“Gallaudets Honored in Aviation as Well as Education”). I did not write “hearing impaired” as I quoted “Deaf ” and please respect that I did choose the correct terminology. I did provide you with a link about the proper reference to the “Deaf ” terminology and this could have been an asset to you, especially when it comes from experts in their respective fields. To reinforce my point, please see the following link: hearinglosshelp.com/blog/hard-of-hearing-hearing-impaired-or-deaf-which-is/ Please make a retraction in the next issue of the magazine. Kenneth S. Rothschild Burbank, California Editor’s Note: We apologize for the errant edits in this letter. Mr. Rothschild did, in fact, provide a valuable link and the information coincides with information available from Gallaudet University (www.gallaudet.edu). A self-adhesive 2015 $15 Common Goldeneye Federal duck stamp still on its backing paper, Scott RW80A. Self-Adhesive Scourge I read with interest the letter by Bill Wilson in the November issue of The American Philatelist (“Collecting Modern Plate Blocks,” pages 1016-18). I began collecting U.S. plate blocks in the mid-1960s, primarily as the result of my father working at the local post office and getting me interested in stamp collecting. My collection, which I thoroughly enjoyed, continued to grow into the late 1990s. However, my interest in plate blocks was dealt a serious blow when the U.S. Postal Service began the transition from the traditional “lick-and-stick” stamps to self-adhesives. While the latter may indeed be more convenient for the Postal Service, as well as for the common customer using the stamps on mail, I felt then as I do now, that this change was a serious blunder with respect to traditional stamp collectors like me. Now I only collect Nevada duck stamps, Federal duck stamps and also Federal Junior duck stamps. After 20 years of producing Federal duck stamps both with moisture-activated gum and in self-adhesive formats, it has now been decided that Federal duck stamps will be released in self-adhesive formats only. Now even the future of that part of my collection is in doubt. Ron Ballard Elko, Nevada 8 AMERICAN PHILATELIST / JANUARY <strong>2019</strong>
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