tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post7841028954130104258..comments2024-03-27T15:49:28.147+00:00Comments on Commonwealth Stamps Opinion: 1071. 🇸🇬🇮🇲🇲🇾 Sheetlets Starting To Dominate The New Issue Market?White Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-25237245801991299052017-09-01T23:04:23.082+00:002017-09-01T23:04:23.082+00:00No single stamps at PO's. Only machine printed...No single stamps at PO's. Only machine printed labels.Stewie1980https://www.blogger.com/profile/17215449288925099410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-4135342654091611752017-08-31T17:43:26.929+00:002017-08-31T17:43:26.929+00:00Netherlands now sell its new stamps only in sheetl...Netherlands now sell its new stamps only in sheetlet of 10. I mean online purchase (either on official website or through WOPA) and subscription. Maybe at the post office counter the customer can get single stamps.west6https://www.blogger.com/profile/03885916586967435230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-67063830395183117722017-08-30T03:53:21.765+00:002017-08-30T03:53:21.765+00:00It is worth noting that on one hand you're not...It is worth noting that on one hand you're not required to purchase anything that the post office produces, and how you form, and what you limit your collection to, is completely up to you. Just because a stamp is sold in a sheet of 8 or 10 doesn't mean you have to buy it. However as White Knight says, it is when this is the only way to buy such an issue that becomes the concern. Also, while many such sheets contain current stamps, there can be subtle differences, and hence they create a new stamp - Australia Post has done this on several occasions where the reprinted definitive stamps are either by a new printer, or have a slight difference in the design or perforation.Chris de Haerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01103852699388056651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-83501857982969140292017-08-29T10:48:38.370+00:002017-08-29T10:48:38.370+00:00Thank you. I am not too concerned about stamps pro...Thank you. I am not too concerned about stamps produced in small sheets from which one can buy a single stamp but rather the growing number, from a number of countries, of sheetlets which are sold as complete items. The personalisable sheets make up a good number of these from countries including Malaysia, India, Australia to mention but a few. In addition the offshore islands, in particular Jersey and Isle Of Man, seem to be liberal with the number of "Collectors sheets" they produce and Jersey Post now seems to think that special commemorations should be celebrated by such sheetlets while what we used to call standard "commemoratives" are now simple thematics without any real reason being given for the choice of subject to be issued at a certain time. Of course almost every single standard "commemorative" set is accompanied by a miniature sheet or a "Prestige" booklet to increase the price of buying a "complete set".White Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-50595218985822940002017-08-29T09:40:51.328+00:002017-08-29T09:40:51.328+00:00SPAM!SPAM!Ian - Norvichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16436130277706268046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-91373244571405505292017-08-29T09:40:10.138+00:002017-08-29T09:40:10.138+00:00Some European countries - Germany for one - have b...Some European countries - Germany for one - have been producing their stamps in sheets of 10 for some years. It seems that that is the size for their counter books, and single stamps are sold from those sheets.<br />I think Guernsey has done the same for some time, and if you buy a single set of stamps (at a PO) you will get a set with the sheet margin attached. If you get them from the bureau the margin is probably removed on all.<br /><br />If that is the only way that they are sold, then it's OK. If the set is produced in individual sheets for each stamp AND in a sheetlet of all, then that's not a good thing.Ian - Norvichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16436130277706268046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-55558482413696684122017-08-29T00:36:21.610+00:002017-08-29T00:36:21.610+00:00I dislike sheetlets and smiley sheets immensely. T...I dislike sheetlets and smiley sheets immensely. Tristan da Cunha went down this route about ten years or more ago. Each new commemorative set had a sheetlet of 8 or 10 issued for each stamp in the set! As a completist I felt duty bound to buy them all to get the full set. In the end I packed up collecting TdC, I just couldn't afford it. I see smiley sheets as a bit of a cop out, they tend to feature a standard postage stamp, one that has been issued numerous times before, and the actual theme of the issue is covered by labels. Why? If a label is going to be designed why not make that the stamp? Moving my interest to collecting round stamps, thus far, this isn't a problem for me. Crossed fingers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869171085819571833noreply@blogger.com