A new stamp country : Montenegro!

14 May 2006

If you still haven't noticed it, Montenegro has recently started to issue postage stamps (not the obligatory tax previously issued) which have an official status. I don't know if they're accepted into international mail, but they are worth to be collected!

A novice needs help...

23 Mar 2005

Hi!
I´m a young brazilian boy and I started in this year to join in collection Stamps. I need some help for my collection. Thank you very much!!!
(sorry, my english is not good!)
With my compliments,
Rildo R. Gomes
Rua Lauro Jacques, QD6 Lote 03/22 - Bloco 08 Apto 302 - Cond. Morada Dos Sonhos I
Setor Negrão de Lima
CEP: 74650-170
Goiânia - GO
Brasil

Stamp links by Country... interested? An open letter to all the visitors....

19 Jan 2004

Dear friends! It was on August 1997 that I decided to put online my small list of philatelic bureaux and links, hoping to receive additional information. At that time I didn't think the site would last so long.
Now it's year 2004 and I'm really happy of the information collected, and that site is quite popular with stamp lovers. I'd like to thank again everyone who wrote me to help. Otherwise the site wouldn't be so updated as it is. Unfortunately I don't have too much time to keep after it. So the result is that only bureaux pages are regularly updated.
When I upgraded the site on year 2000, I also thought to do a listing of links classified by nation. Surely many of you have visited my country pages. This project has been abandoned for lack of time, and most of these pages are not updated since that year. With thousands of philatelic links on the web, it would be impossible for me to collect all the links related to a country and then keep the lists updated.
But I could list only sites which I found interesting for one country and avoid the updates of URLs.
Of course I could revamp this section of the site only if there is interest in it.
When I browse philatelic sites sometimes I find interesting sites which could be useful for collectors which follow a country or a certain area (i.e. Scandinavia, Former Yugoslavia, etc.). I would be happy to share these links with you. Are you interested? Let me know. And which countries.

PS. I have just added some new countries: Australia, Canada, Netherlands and New Zealand

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Countries refusing to sell their stamps - part 3 New entry: Suriname Post stop selling stamps

updated on 29 Jan 2004

With the help of worldwide collectors now I can give you more details about the BAD behavior of some philatelic services with foreign collectors. If they think this will increase their philatelic sale they are in error and I hope that more collectors will let know them what they think about these sales policy. If you have additional info let me know!

Country	Problem
Suriname	Suriname post do not sell stamps to foreigners anymore
China	they don't sell stamps to foreign collectors
Russia	they don't sell stamps to foreign collectors - by now
Czech Rep.	Refuse to sell only to certain countries where they have an official agent (i.e. Italy, Spain)
Israel	Refuse to sell single issues - only by subscriptions
IGPC agency	Certain issues produced by the agent are not sent to related countries (Guyana,etc) to be sold by local philatelic bureau. Where are UPU, FIP and catalogue publishers?
Canada	Starting January 1, 2003, single stamps will be only available through the quarterly collector's pack. (if you want a single stamp,You have to buy at least a block of 4 or a complete booklet)
Netherlands	Don't sell single stamp/set - only whole sheet/sheetlet/booklet are sold. Single issues are only available in the annual yearpack. This has been done for operational reasons (read below).

About Netherlands: all post offices are fully "computerized" and all items should have a bar-code to be sold. Unfortunately you can't put a bar-code on a single stamp, so TPG Post decided only to sell their stamps in sheets or booklets. They sell the stamps for the current rates in booklets of five or ten stamps.

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