tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post8803480569079043602..comments2024-03-27T15:49:28.147+00:00Comments on Commonwealth Stamps Opinion: 1052. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Ends Health Stamps After 88 Years.White Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-26444645696923492572018-04-10T09:37:39.792+00:002018-04-10T09:37:39.792+00:00Read significant data about the masters in your ge...Read significant data about the masters in your general vicinity. Look at their appraisals previously you pick a master. <a href="https://punaisesdelit.org/" rel="nofollow">punaise de lit piqure</a>Burgesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14070097269004895520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-80191537820539951442017-08-08T02:48:22.127+00:002017-08-08T02:48:22.127+00:00Selling 5000 copies of 10 different sets is less p...Selling 5000 copies of 10 different sets is less profitable than selling 10000 copies of 5 different sets because for each issue there is an overhead (design costs and other overhead) that is independent of the number of stamps produced and sold.eyeonwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14261303818379615361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-3867437644350181112017-08-01T05:19:02.320+00:002017-08-01T05:19:02.320+00:00Dear Chris, thank you for your 2 most recent comme...Dear Chris, thank you for your 2 most recent comments.<br />Your comment on the realities of running a philatelic department is very interesting and any sensible collector will understand that they must make a profit and that profits are probably small and that one day stamps sold for collecting purposes may actually turn up to be used for postal usage. Profits may be very small now because far fewer stamps of a particular issue are sold as more and more collectors are turned away from new issues simply because of the large number of issues being produced. As number of stamps of particular issues purchased for collection falls so the philatelic service increases the number of issues to sell to collectors to maintain its income. A vicious circle results in unhappy collectors and philatelic services with falling incomes. Australia Post seems to me to have got itself into such a situation.<br /> I noticed that PCI had added some new issues to its 2016 listing for Samoa and started to write the next Blog about it and then noticed you had left a comment on this. In fact the Tourism, Christmas and WWF stamps have been listed for some months but the Kennedy and Nebulae items are newly added presumably to get them on the list before the 31 December 2016 which is probably when their contract with Samoa expired. I am a little dubious as to whether these stamps were actually placed on sale in Samoa itself before 31 December given that the Kennedy stamps for all PCI's other clients were not issued until mid-2017. It's a mystery to me as to why Samoa would issue stamps depicting nebulae.<br />Best wishes.White Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-34823800199483955202017-08-01T03:19:13.027+00:002017-08-01T03:19:13.027+00:00Regarding Samoa, this is on PCI's website:
&qu...Regarding Samoa, this is on PCI's website:<br />"Due to extenuating circumstances surrounding Samoa Post’s failure to act within the agreed terms we have been given no other choice than to end our representation until an amicable resolution can be reached. Going forward we do not have plans to offer new issue services for 2017 issues onward, though we will maintain an inventory of all prior issues offered from our company.<br />"We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this change, we will keep you informed going forward with updates should our representation resume. If there is anything we can assist you with please let us know."<br /><br />Interestingly there's a five new issues listed for December:<br />14 December 2016 - Tourism Definitives<br />21 December 2016 - Christmas<br />23 December 2016 - JFK<br />27 December 2016 - WWF Turtles<br />30 December 2016 - Space/NebulaChris de Haerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01103852699388056651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-22917785201496719342017-08-01T00:48:17.056+00:002017-08-01T00:48:17.056+00:00Whilst it is sad to see the end of the Health stam...Whilst it is sad to see the end of the Health stamps, it is a reflection on the realities in which modern post offices most operate. In private conversations with Australia Post Philatelic over their stamp issuing policy I have heard about the realities that philatelic departments have to operate under. 'We have to achieve a profit' was the line that was used, and so that explains the proliferation of additional items with new issues. Yes, selling stamps does mean revenue, but that revenue needs to be held as those stamps could be used as postage in the future. Profit margins for philatelic departments are very slim, and the cost to administer the Health stamp scheme wouldn't have been small. A sad but inevitable reflection on the world in which modern post offices must operate.Chris de Haerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01103852699388056651noreply@blogger.com