New Zealand Kiwi Stamps

Kia Ora,Does your country issue similar stamps as NZ Post Kiwi stamps? They don't have any value on them,but they cost 60c each,which is the current cost to post a letter within NZ. They hold their value - meaning that if the postal rate went up tomorrow to 70c,you can still use the kiwi stamps you have.
Here is a photo of some NZ Post kiwi.Some other companies are allowed to print their own kiwi stamps.




1.Kiwi bird;2.the beach;3.outdoors;4.It does get windy; 5.barbecues; 6.playing cricket on the beach;7.Farming/swandri jacket;8.Hokey Pokey ice cream;9.Fish&chips (never ask a NZ'er to say fish& chips - ;
10.A kiwi icon of 3 ducks on the wall;11.lawn mowing,especially early hours of Sunday morning when you are trying to sleep;12.Fishing.

Sorry,I did put numbers on the stamps,but they have not shown.

I have them classified as NZ Alternative stamps Joey

Hi,many thanks for your comment/photos. The NZ Alternative stamps are different as they have a value on them. Whereas NZ Post kiwi stamps have no value. If you brought at 60c and postage rate went to 70c,you would be on the winning side as you don't have to add an extra 10c stamp.
If you used alternative stamps on letters,you would have to add extra stamps to make up the value to the current standard 60c postage rate. I have seen both NZ post & alternative stamps on the same envelope.

Thank you.

OK, I had to look up Hokey Pokey ice cream. Yum, sounds delicious! I really like the Crunchie chocolate bar, a big slab of sponge toffee that glues itself all over my teeth when I eat it - tea is the only known remedy, I think. I would imagine that putting blobs of that stuff in ice cream would really get it stuck in my molars ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchie

Yum again, now I wish I had some in my cupboard.

Ryan

I prefer fush un chups, hey bro.

Joey, I'm not sure how many other coutries have these type of stamps, but the U.S has Forever stamps which are the same.

Steve

talking about Fush and Chups as some of us NZer's are supposed to say.
It actually stems from the British who migrated to NZ in the 1840"S etc.
It comes from the fact that the dish was supposed to have been invented in a town called Cheps in England, and one of the more interesting mass meals of the fish and cheps was before the Battle of Waterloo and the Cheps were cooked in Horse fat and served wrapped in old newsprint.
Regards
Horamakhet

Kia Ora Everyone,
Rod222,I found a few alternative stamps while sorting thru my stamps. Sometimes you can buy bulk lots on NZ auction sites but some people ask twice the price of the face value. Do you collect them?
When I get to 50 posts,I am going to start a pass-it-on letter with 50 stamps and thought I'd include a couple of the higher value alternative stamps in the mix. I'd post a photo of the 50 stamps and post it to a member. They would take out the stamps they like,put in replacement stamps and then pass-it-on (I got told off by a member calling it a stamp chain letter) to the next member on the list. Each list would have 4 - 5 members with the last person on the list sending the stamps back to me.
Ryan,the crunchie is the same thing,just that trade marks don't allow us it call it that. I'll see if I can dig out a hokey pokey recipe as it's easy to make. keeps the kids quiet for 5 minutes while they make it and another 5 minutes while they eat it.(lol)
Triggersmob,so NZ call them Kiwi stamps;USA forever stamps - anyone else? Australia? Whats to stop people buying up large @ 60c each and in 10 years time when postage costs are $2 re-selling what cost them 60c,for $2?
Horamket,Thanks very much for that little bit of history. I always wonder where that came from. You can still buy fish & chips at places wrapped in newspaper. There is a pet shop in the city called "Fish & Chirps" (Off the subject a bit,there is also a hair salon called "Curl Up & Dye") We get a lot of travellers staying at our property,whose second language is English and it's hard trying to understanding what they are saying,but we get there in the end. This year we have had people from Germany (1 person here now & 1 arriving);France (2 people here now);South Korea;Israel;Belgium; plus people from UK,USA (1 arriving soon)Australia, (1 here now) ,Canada,Swizerland,Austria and also NZ'ers.
Cheers everyone !

I just had a thought (which is dangerous at my age,according to a friend - getting old(er) by the minute) I could of started my own stamp forum by now with all the different countries as that is just some of the many. They come & sometimes stay a week on our 10 acre block.
The view on a good day. The body of water to the right is Kaipara Harbour - the land bit poking out into the water is Shelly Beach,26 km by road,from where I sit.

Hmmmm, I know you have mountains in New Zealand..i have some of the parks sets !!

Ryan, I can tell you first hand,
Hokey Pokey Icecream is to die for,
The Kiwis hit on a winner with that one,
quite difficult to source in Australia.

The day will come when I finally make a trip to the Antipodes - item #1 on the agenda is "eat a meat pie at an AFL game" and item #2 must now be "fill my face with Hokey Pokey ice cream".

Ryan

Why wait till you come downunder?
Did you know the largest AFL game played outside of Aus was played in Canada. If I remember correctly the attendance was about 33,000 people. That's more than we get at our WAFL games, here in Perth.

http://www.afl.com.au/development/i...default.aspx

Oh and don't forget the tomato sauce!

Steve

Yes, Aussie rules football has something of a cult following here. In the very early days of TSN, our first 24-hour sports network, they didn't have the budget to buy expensive programs so there was a lot of AFL being shown, which they could apparently get for almost nothing. It ended up gaining quite the following here. Eventually the network got stronger and they dropped their AFL coverage. For many years, they'd still show the Grand Final to appease the masses who missed seeing it all the time. In the past couple of years, it's been back on the schedule a bunch (mostly on TSN2 which I don't receive, although I did see the last Grand Final live on TSN).

Ryan

In Canada we have Permanent stamps with a big P in a maple leaf.


It is funny going in to the post office and asking for some P stamps I tell you. They used that word because it is the same in French and English. Perhaps the maple leaf symbol helps out and people forget the P on the leaf? Hope so.

Oh, I forgot to tell everyone, we have taken over the space shuttle program and the balloon is our new shuttle. And we have annexed Rome as part of Canada now.