"Philatelia" Magasine

Editorial staff:
Dan Anghelescu, Ioan Daniliuc, Serban Dragusanu, Marian Jianu,
Calin Marinescu, Mihail Popovici, Mihail Pascanu, Angelo-Barbu Popescu,
Razvan-Radu Popescu, Dan Vintila, Sergiu Gabureac.

Newspaper office:
Serban D. Dragusanu (managing editor)
Julieta Dolcu (general secretary)
Silvia Dumitrache (the main editor)

The Romanian Post Office has issued a commemorative issue of postal marks in the memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks from 11th of September 2001 in USA. The issue was launched during a ceremony, which has taken place Friday on 22nd March 2002, at the American Culture Center in Bucharest. On this occasion have delivered speeches his Excellency Mr. Michael Guest the USA ambassador, Mr. Dan Nica the Ministry of Communication, Mr. Gabriel Mateescu Director C.N. Romanian Post and Mr.Octavian Penda the artist that has realized the plaster.

The Post Office Cart

In the XVIII and XIX century the transport of individuals was realized by the post office. The archaic means of transport in which the poor travelers where carried out were thoroughly described, some times with a lot of humor by those who had the chance to arrive at their destination. For understanding the gigantic jump from the post office cart to the modern means of transport in our days, we reproduce a fragment from the workshop of doctor C.D.Severeanu "From my memories"(1853-1928), enthusiastic archaeologist, numismatic and philatelist.

This dynamic character enriched by now with a strong organizational sense, concerning mainly the opening of new and unthinkable orisons for the Romanian philatelic is considered to be today one of our greatest faker in this area. His greatest and without shadow of doubt achievement have been minimized and some not even reveled.

In the same time with Romanian Post Office, several Publishing Houses have used between the year 1957 and 1975 a number of 171 negatives for the illustration of some of black and white and colored c.p.i. that were signed by Mr.Constantin Savulescu. The research of the collection of black and white and also colored c.p.i. has given light to the main Publishing Houses which in the period of 1957-1975 have been printed and put into value such master pieces.

The second session of the year 2002 of the carto-philatelic studies club took place on Thursday the 7th of March, at the Head Office of the Philatelic Association in Bucharest.
The president of the circle Mr. Silviu Dragomir has succeeded in mobilizing 29 persons that came to participate obtaining in this manner a record presence from the day when the group was establish. Mr. Francisc Ambrus held the conference and the theme was "Philately, Card collecting, Personal Computers and Internet". In the beginning, the possibilities of using the Internet, the accessibility of information as well as the connecting costs were mentioned.