Postal Etiquettes And/Or Labels From Around The World

Postal Etiquettes or Postal Labels are (as far as I know) labels supplied by a post office to indicate the special way that the piece of mail with such a label attached is to treated.

Airmail, Registration, Parcel Post and others.

These can also be considered Ciderellas.

Here are a couple I received recently (Jan 2011) from Great Britain (Royal Mail).
Airmail and Small Packets:


I am not sure if a customs declaration form in the form of a label is considered a postal label (well, it is a label) or not, strictly speaking. On the same package as those above:


And, I know it's not a postal label, but I like it, a return address label in the colours of eBay (neat but hard to read!):


Some links to start you off:
Airmail Etiquettes by Riga Stamps
http://www.cinderellas.info/columns...t/index.html

The Postal Label Study Group
http://www.postal-label-study-group...duction.html

And for those who like addressing envelopes and such with an artistic flair:
Artistic Addressing (and Etiquette)
http://www.artisticaddressing.com/Etiquette.htm

I've got some more but not many.
Anyone else have any?

Another return address label from Great Britain sent to me in Canada with a nice gold maple leaf on it:

Airmail etiquette / label from Germany 2011
and shucks, is that another return address label too?

Of course the Rodster collects this stuff

Yes, I should look for that pic Rod posted.

Rod, by the way, did you ever get that envelope I mailed to your old address with etiquettes?

Yes I did Puzzler,
thank you very much, and may I apologise
if I had not conveyed receipt.

These are very dear to my collecting,
I just love the ephemeral junk.

Me too !

Israel....




Great Britain



More later.....

Londonbus1

Yes I take my hat off to you Michael,
you have some really beautiful junk.

I remember on another forum, when I discovered you,
I thought Wow! another person who likes the junky stuff.
It was hard to believe.
But sadly however, for really bad junk,
I pip you at the post :)
I thought I was the only one to collect printed glassine
but again, I am wrong.

BTW Your first image is not showing.

Hope the image of the junk is showing now.
Not sure what happened there

Oh my, Rod - I recall winning an eBay auction of etiquette kiloware on your behalf this summer. I don't recall where I stashed the package! It's undoubtedly around somewhere, I'll find the shovel and flashlight and will start digging.

Ryan

Current (2010) Canada Air Mail etiquette part sheet, self-adhesive, which most labels are now I think.

Hungary from an envelope postmarked 1936:




Ireland 2010 (yes, it is really this small and the Hungary one so big)

Yes..didn't you feel the pins Ryan

Look, I knew you wouldn't have done it on purpose,
and they may have been lost in the mail,
and I have been guilty of the same thing in
the past. It's human.
As nerdy as stamp collecting is, I reckon it can be
fast paced when one is trading, lots of things to remember,
things to do.
They are only little bits of paper after all




Be careful not to disinter the pet cat or budgie

Nice contribution Puzz,
I think (02-12) indicates the release date (dec 2002)
so they have been in service a while.

Australia 2010 Small Airmail etiquette / label:



Australia 2010 Large Airmail etiquette / label:

Large size of Ireland Airmail etiquette on piece with Sea Aster flower stamp for size comparison sakes.