Dear Collector,

For more than forty years, the Armed Forces Stamp Exchange Club limited its membership to people who were members of the Armed Forces or employees of the US Government.  Over fifteen years ago, we opened our membership (at the request of our members), to all Stamp Collectors.  AFSEC has evolved into a fraternal organization where many of our members stay on even after they have stopped collecting.

AFSEC offers a well stocked Exchange Circuit with exceptional world wide quality stamps which usually also includes many high value and hard to find items for countries in the exchange. In addition, we operate a quarterly auction filled with items from many countries.  We generally sell over 70 precent of the items every auction.

For membership in AFSEC please click on the application membership link located on the menu above. The membership application will open in an Adobe PDF file. From the opened AFSEC membership application select print which will also print two “Collecting Interest” sheets. You must also furnish a verified reference such as a membership number from another national stamp organization as a reference. In lieu of another national stamp organization you can also be personally sponsored by another AFSEC member in which your would include your AFSEC sponsor’s membership number. If you have never joined a national organization before, AFSEC is a great place to start! Please furnish a personal family reference of at least one friend or other family member if you have no other references. The AFSEC council will approve all members after thirty days with no objections. We verify all references. 

DUES: 

01 January 2012 to 31 December 2012 Regular Rates.

Regular 2012 Dues with "Digital Bulletin Delivery" - $10.00

Regular 2012 Dues with "Postal Bulletin Delivery" - $13.00 (Canada and other country's

rate is $15.00)

POSTAGE ACCOUNT:

When applying for an Exchange circuit, you must also remit not less than $10 to establish a postage account for the Exchange Circuit. These funds will be transferred to the circuit manager from your application check. After your application is accepted all future additions to these postage accounts are made directly with the Exchange Circuit manager.  Please make your checks payable to AFSEC.

AFSEC NEWS:

AUCTION:  George Land is accepting auction materials. Every lot submitted MUST be accompanied by a$0.50 non-refundable listing fee. This $.50 will be credited towards the 10% commission when the lot sells, so the cost to successful sellers remains the same as before. To save postage costs, only lots weighing 4 oz. or less each will be shipped to the auctioneer. Larger lots will be retained by the seller and drop shipped upon sale.

Please carefully read the new auction “NOTE TO SELLERS” on our FAQ page using the link above before submitting auction lots. The AUCTION information and rules can viewed from that page in an Adobe PDF

MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY:  Scott Simon is the Membership Secretary. His address is listed below under the Membership Secretary position. Please mail your 2011 dues to Scott Simon and make sure your check is made out to AFSEC or Armed Forces Stamp Exchange Club.

EXCHANGE CIRCUIT: This circuit, (since it was the basis for forming the club), is one of the main functions of the Club.  The exchange circuit's objective is to provide our members, a means to exchange stamps with other members, without having to correspond with each other individually. This is accomplished by using a system of letter sized forms where up to thirty six stamps or lots of stamps can be mounted. The exchange manager, records the total catalog value of sheets entered and credits the member's account.  In turn, once sufficient credit has been accrued, the member receives a selection from other members.  The member then selects stamps, places their membership number in the vacated space, and does the accounting in the space provided, on the sheet (even if no stamps were taken); finally, he/she returns the selection to the manager who debits the member's trading credit.  The only costs to the exchange member are postage, and a 10 percent (catalog value) deduction from each of the sellers entries (for insurance and exchange operating costs). Please read the Exchange manager’s page for more details.

Please note that the exchange is not intended as a place to dump low value duplicate stamps and pull high value items for your collection, this type of activity is discouraged by the exchange manager. We also do not accept; damaged, spurious, faulty and undesirable stamps in our stock. These items will be returned to the member at the exchange managers discretion and the fee deducted for postage costs to return these items. We run a quality exchange with quality stamps.

We also have hundreds of countries are in stock. We also have exchange stock that includes some country packets for beginners with lower value stamps to build a new country outside of the exchange sheets. These packets have been built over the years as a country filler service to our members. These items are mailed in bulk and will be furnished on an honor basis, where the member pulls out selected stamps from the envelope and returns the packet and information back to the exchange manager. Please contact the exchange manager by email for more information about country packets. Members of the Exchange are encouraged to post questions and special items you are looking for by email to the exchange manager. The exchange manager will furnish a welcome packet after your deposit and stamps exchange sheets are received. All exchange correspondence is saved in your member exchange file including your country interest sheets.

AFSEC Executive Secretary - Our Executive Secretary is Hal Stout, write to him for your general club correspondence at his mailing address:

AFSEC

ATTN: Executive Secretary - Hal Stout

PO Box 342

Woodstock, VA 22664-0342

AFSEC President and Webmaster - is Scott Simon, you can write to Scott at his mailing address:

AFSEC

ATTN: President - Scott Simon

1954 Berkshire Drive

Clarksville, TN 37042-4598

AFSEC Auction - Auctioneeer is George Land. You can write to George at his Auction mailing address:

AFSEC

ATTN: Auctioneer - George Land

P.O. Box 434

Camp Meeker, CA 95419-0434

AFSEC Exchange - Exchange manager is Chuck Maloney.  You can write to Chuck at his the Exchange Circuit mailing address:

AFSEC

ATTN: Exchange Circuit Mgr. - Chuck Maloney

720 W. Deerfield Dr.

Springfield, MO 65807-4208

AFSEC was originally founded in 1954 for Active/Retired Military and Government service personnel.

Today our membership is “Open To Everyone.”

Our web site is maintained by life member LM54 Scott Simon.

Any questions about this website should be addressed to Scott Simon at afsec9@gmail.com