Royal Baby!? Tell Me I'm Not Crazy!

A few moons back I remember being quite perplexed at the arrival of the Duke and Duchess wedding stamps that Canada Post put out. Not just at the choice of this particular subject - after all Charles and Diana did not have a stamp - but at the sheer exuberance of the amount of material that was being put out for the event: multiple stamps, booklets, gutter products, you name it. I thought to myself, perplexed, this is not right, must be an aberration, a hiccup in the stamp program.

So here I am now faced with this "Royal Baby" issue. What's going on! Seeing as there were no such issues for William or his brother, why the change? It seems to me a blatant pandering and a cheapening of the Canada Post stamp program (but to be fair this has been going on for a while, i.e the CFL bonanza, (but at least these were for something Canadian), the Jubilee (but in some ways these were for a philatelic retrospective of past Canadian issues) and so on...)

So am I just cynical in thinking this - I don't want to take out my frustrations on a newborn! or is there really a large enough contingent of Canadians who think that this is a meaningful and relevant enough event to commemorate with a stamp?

Should we all be on the lookout for a special issue of baby's first steps, or Royal baby is potty trained? As someone who has been assiduously collecting Canadian stamps for decades this cheapening of the program is disheartening...

My answers to some of your questions are mixed to be honest.

I can see issuing a stamp for the royal baby, or even a small set, but, leave it at just that. I agree, we don't need the S/S, booklets, panes and whatever else they have issued in the past.

I can understand the idea issuing one for the baby because it represents us as a member of the British Commonwealth.

Having stated the above, I can rest in the fact that Canada Post is not alone when it comes to exploiting the collector.

My opinions of course.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I'm against this craziness as well. But then as the Camada Post web site says that the online supply of some of the issue is sold out, just shows "what do we know!".

Call me crazy, I like the stamp very much. Wish I had one.

Postal Authorities pray on our 'completist' tendencies.

I collect a dead area, so I don't have this problem but I think you should identify stamps that serve a valid postal function and collect them. Have the basic stamps that accommodate the various postal rates, don't worry about the miniature sheets with various marginal markings and all the other rubbish, they serve no valid postal function.

Please see Canada on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada

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When you're popular worldwide, you're popular; no disrespect meant to Charles, Prince of Wales or to the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charle...nce_of_Wales



Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, as a baby and a young girl appeared on different stamps of the Commonwealth.

edit: typos.

Quite the happy stamp I think:
Photo couresy of Canada Post.
http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/per...l_infant.jsf

Canada Post seems a bit behind the times. Australia was the first to issue a stamp for the birth of Prince George back in July. Today (Wednesday 23rd October) the prince is being christened at St James's Palace in London (England). Australia Post has announced in its latest Stamp Bulletin that it will issue 2 stamps (and associated junk) to celebrate the christening, at a date to be advised in 2014. Can't wait!

MKFARM - send me your mailing address through this forum and I'll send you one as a gift.

I appreciate that, sent you an email, let me know if you are looking for something from the states.