tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post4973332521341360391..comments2024-03-27T15:49:28.147+00:00Comments on Commonwealth Stamps Opinion: 990. Charming Conservation Stamps From Jersey, Tsunami Of Issues From
Australia Post.White Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-89376926678046955902017-05-12T21:53:13.078+00:002017-05-12T21:53:13.078+00:00Hello Stephen,
You are quite right. Many post o...Hello Stephen,<br /> You are quite right. Many post offices are indeed located inside other shops now. <br /> Most, in my experience, do sell postage stamps but I suppose they are mainly a limited range of definitives along with any odd values of commemoratives they may not yet have sold.<br /> My own local post office is a small suburban p.o. located in a newsagents and general stores. The building it is located in has been a post office and general stores since the 1890s. I can usually get basic sets of new issues when they are released but these often get used up quite quickly. If one hands over an item for mailing then counter printed labels are used unless you ask specifically to use postage stamps on them.<br /><br />Post offices are generally more interested in selling foreign currency or insurance policies to you than selling postage stamps because, presumably, there's more money to be made from the former.White Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-23684975899911549132017-05-12T06:23:21.064+00:002017-05-12T06:23:21.064+00:00When I was recently in the UK I found it very hard...When I was recently in the UK I found it very hard (a) to find a post office - most seem to have been relegated to a counter in the corner of some other shop, and (b) to find a post office that actually sold stamps and not just printed labels (as opposed to Post & Go).Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07749646892295065972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-26937572230871154342017-04-30T19:32:16.101+00:002017-04-30T19:32:16.101+00:00Hello. If the definition of a postage stamp is tha...Hello. If the definition of a postage stamp is that it is a receipt for prepayment of postage to be fixed to an item of mail to indicate that the postage has indeed been paid then Post and Go stamps/labels must indeed be postage stamps. <br /><br />The main feature of Post and Go stamps is that they are vended from a machine rather than by a human across a post office or shop counter and also the value is added to the stamp at the time of sale rather than being preprinted on the stamp.<br /><br />Post And Go stamps have not replaced postage stamps and are not sold at every postal outlet.<br /><br />I certainly collect Post and Go stamps as postage stamps and I think they are an important part of the story of the development of postage stamps - an example of how the advance of new technology has changed the sort of postage stamp we can buy and use on our mail. White Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-86920641848546838092017-04-29T22:07:17.391+00:002017-04-29T22:07:17.391+00:00Has 'Post & Go' labels effectively rep...Has 'Post & Go' labels effectively replaced the postage stamp? What is the deal with these anyway? Are they classed as postage stamps and do collectors collect them as such?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869171085819571833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-29719612144553128752017-04-29T17:41:19.540+00:002017-04-29T17:41:19.540+00:00Hello again. Fair point. However here in England n...Hello again. Fair point. However here in England no-one actually seems to use stamps at all and there are of course a number of 1st Class rate commemoratives issued in any given year. Perhaps commemorative stamps would be used more here if 2nd class values appeared more regularly. But the only time I ever see stamps, let alone special stamps, used on ordinary domestic mail is if someone sends a greetings card of some type or the other. The only mail I otherwise receive with stamps affixed is philatelic in nature and it even seems that very few stamp dealers or philatelic bureaux use up to date commemoratives now.<br />Best wishes.White Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-51501289324028666952017-04-29T16:10:47.753+00:002017-04-29T16:10:47.753+00:00While I do not support the plothera of issues to b...While I do not support the plothera of issues to be released by Australia Post over the next two months one thing to be said about them is that all by one of the stamps covers the current domestic rates, and so collectors stand a chance of actually getting them on mail, rather than the situation with the UK where many issues consist of overseas rate stamps which local collectors will rarely ever find in used condition.Chris de Haerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01103852699388056651noreply@blogger.com