Wednesday evening, many of those attending Americover 2014 gathered in the lobby of the DoubleTree Somerset to renew old friendships:From Thursday’s tour:

Participants in the Americover 2014 pre-show tour enter Washington Press headquarters in Florham Park, N.J.

Otto Thamasatt, John Hayner and John Friedrich show off their ArtCraft tour envelope souvenirs.

The postmaster of Florham Park himself applied cancels to the tour souvenir envelopes, with stamps provided by The Washington Press.

The jam-packed tour included a quick visit to The Collectors Club on East 35th Street in New York.

Americover 2014 tourists join others at the fountain on the World Trade Center site. In the light blue shirt near the center is Mark Thompson (Tennessee); to the left is Alan Warren (Pennsylvania). To the right is Carol Peluso (New York). Further to the right in the black polo shirt is Frank Kohut of Maryland and next to him in medium blue is Bob Lewin (California).

Americover 2014 tour guide Henry Scheuer (green hat) discusses the events of September 11th with participants in the tour. Through the trees at the top center of the photo is the building where Henry was working that day.

Americover 2014 chair Pete Martin goes through a box of covers at Champion Stamp Company, the only remaining street-level stamp store in New York.

Here’s a view of the Stamp Fulfillment Services seminar at Americover 2014. That’s right, no one from the U.S. Postal Service showed up. No one from the USPS called to say no one would be there.