Yes, welcome to FrankinZine, the publication of the N3F Franking Bureau. The original purpose of the N3F was to serve as a zine distribution service. FanZine Editors would send us a bundle of copies of their zine, we would sort them into subscriber stacks, and once a month the subscriber would receive his month’s supply of fanzines, all in one envelope. Period peculiarities in postal rates meant that this circulation scheme was actually very positive financially for subscribers, at least if the human labor at the sorting point was viewed as costing nothing. The Franking Service rapidly expired of its internal contradictions.
Some years ago, we revived the Service. We would get zines in the email and with some regularity re-email them to the membership, our fellow fen. Alas, modern advances (I use the word loosely) in spam blockades meant that the presence of the zines, the attachments, would trigger all sorts of bad events, so we had to stop doing that.
Various issues caused delays, but we now have the solution at hand: FrankinZine! Every so often, we will take a bunch of new fanzines, combine them into a ZIP file, and put them up on this web site as the latest issue of FrankinZine. FrankinZine will only be available as a downloadable ZIP file. Notice will be given of which zines are within each zip file, so that you can download them at your leisure. In the near future, we have a lot of catchup to do, so FrankinZine will appear here regularly.
| Date | Issue Number | Collator | In This Issue |
| May 2024 | 1 | George Phillies | This Here71, This Here 72, Shooting my Cuffs 11 MT VOID: 2282, 2307,2308,2309,2311,2312,2314,2317,2318 |
| June 2024 | 2 | George Phillies | MT VOID 2319, Cyber Cozen March 2024, Instant Message March 2024, Shooting my Cuffs 12, Instant Message Boskone 61 DeBrief, MT Void 2322, Obdurate Eye 38, Cyber Cozen April 2024, Space Cowboy Accretion #7, De Profundis 596 |
| July 2024 | 3 | George Phillies | Cyber Cozen May 2024, Typo King 88, Instant Message May, This Here 75, STF Amateur 9, De Profundis 598, Space Cowboy’s Accretion 9, Obdurate Eye 40, MT Void 331 |
| July 2024 | 4 | George Phillies | Instant Message, Blue Moon Special, Cyber Cozen, De Profundis, MT VOID, Sondar, Space Cowboy’s Accretion, This Here, The STF Amateur |
| August 2024 | 5 | George Phillies | Cyber Cozen July, De Profundis – August; MT Void 2336, 2339, Obdurate Eye 41, Obdurate Eye 42, This Here 77, Typo King 90 |
| September 2024 | 6 | George Phillies | Rhyme 6, MT VOID 2344, Obdurate Eye 43, Space Cowboy’s Accretion 12, This Here 78, The STF Amateur 12 |
| October 2024 | 7 | George Phillies | |
| October 2024 | 8 | George Phillies | |
| November 2024 | 9 | George Phillies |