The aims of the Carriers And Locals Society are:

1. To further the understanding of the operations of the private mail companies in the United States during the  nineteenth century.  These companies frequently made innovations in the handling of the mail that were later copied by the Government postal service.

2. To study the postal emissions and the postal history of these private mail companies.

3. To study the postal emissions and postal history of the government Carrier service that came into being largely to compete with the private companies.

4. To study and catalog the proliferations of reprints, imitations and fantasies of these issues.  These were many times generated simply to satisfy the growing interest of collectors.

To  join the Society:

Please fill out  the application on the "Join Now" link above. 

The Index to The Penny Post:

The current issue of The Penny Post  is the October 2009 issue (volume 17, no. 4).  Use the comprehensive index which is provided as an Adobe Acrobat file to search for subjects of interest.

Interested in collecting Carrier and Local Post stamps and postal history?

If you are new to our collecting area, we have provided an introductory article by well known postal historian and author, Calvet M. Hahn.  Click here for the Acrobat format file. 

To contact the Society officers:

Please go to "Officer Contact Information."

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