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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 |
We are proud to present the Frank Geiger Philatelists - www.WorldStamps.com family. Our office is only a few yards from our home and is enhanced with a gorgeous view of our 4 acre pond and surrounded by 20 acres of trees. Our land is filled with deer, box turtles and a fox. We enjoy both our work and the natural area in which to do it!
LADY is our 14 year-old Shetland Sheep Dog. Fiercely loyal and a joy to all of us. She guards our property tenaciously and eagerly notifies us when the Mail, UPS or FedEx arrives. Not a day goes by when she doesn't make someone smile with her affectionate behavior!
MUFFIN is our second dog. She is a 6 year old Collie - Shepard mix. Harriet helped rescue her from deplorable conditions at a kill shelter in the South. She is playful, affectionate and has given Lady a new puppyhood!
ZIPPY is our latest (and only male) dog. He is a 3 year old Shih Tzu. Harriet rescued him from an abusive home and, I'm happy to report, he has fluorished here. He is cute, wildly enegetic and gives Lady her third puppyhood! Give him a tennis ball and a plate of food and he asks no more from life.
The FOUR CATS: Our four cats are the greatest group of purrers ever! They keep our chairs warm and love to nap in the penny box. Harriet volunteers at the nearby animal shelter and keeps her eye out for cats in need of a good home. Right now, we have Tigey, Creamy, Taffy and Stormy. If you are a feline fancier, mention it in your next letter. (Sales pitch: we have a great array of Cats on Stamps to grace your albums!) Latest news: we have adopted two "outside only" cats: Rexler and Goblin (the furriest of all!). Great mouse hunters!!
CHERRY: This was our resident goldfish whose age was fifteen years old when he was mysteriously found outside his fish bowl! The animal police have rounded up and are investigating the usual cat suspects!
LISA, who has been working here since 2003 and creates our New Issue Year Sets daily. When taking a break from that task, she been painstakingly inputing more stock into the website database. She has eased our workload noticeably!
COLLEEN is the latest addition to our staff. As a dog lover, she is fitting in very well and learning about the world of philately. She, too, creates Year Sets as well as sorts our recent large purchases.
ELLEN processes many of the New Issues which arrive daily and helps create our famous Year Sets. She is new to Philately and already tempted to start collections of South Africa and Jersey!
JULIE is in her last year of high school and is our office "runner" and chief organizer. She runs stockbooks to our order desks and keep stock organized and findable. She is responsible for inputting many of the new issues we handle.
FRANKIE, our son, is age 18, a senior at Bergen Catholic High School in Oradell, NJ and the resident computer guru. He has widely randing duties in the office ranging from keeping our multi-station network humming to preparing our daily outgoing mail for delivery to the post office. He assisted in development of the logic between our unique WorldStamps.com website 6 years ago, created WorldStamps scans which allowed efficient input of many images at once and, mostly recent, created an complicated multi-variate algorithm to prioritize our incoming orders. He has been making websites since he was 8! His Pokemon Card site has had over 20,000 hits. He is now enjoying learning the trumpet and guitar plus socializing dogs at our local animal shelter.
At his High School Awards Night, he received the Outstanding Academic Achievement and Leadership in Extracurricular Activies Award; the Xerox Award for Innovation and Information Technology Award; a National Merit Scholar Commendation; a Senior Year Academic Scholarship; and memberships in the National and French Honor Societies.
TRACY, our 22 year-old daughter is the "sports nut" of the house and probably knows more about pro-football, college football, hockey and basketball than any two of us put together! She is also an excellent student and enjoys reading, movies, music of many types, crime shows on TV, UConn sports and more! She is in the final year at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT and is planning on pursuing a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology.
HARRIET keeps things humming smoothly around the office. She is in charge of maintaining client records and oversees the shipping department. Plus she does a lot of the computer inputting so you can see she has a very busy day. Add to that her pets, painting, reading and volunteer work, you can see it is a wonder that she sleeps at all!
FRANK has been a Professional Philatelist since graduating from M.I.T. with two degrees in 1969. He started dealing in stamps at age 7 in second grade! Over the past 50 years (!), he has built a tremendous stock of stamps ranging from classics to rarities to FDC's to Year Sets. His non-philatelic interests are golf, coaching basketball, coaching baseball, traveling and reading.