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What Are "Modern Private Post Offices Of Germany" Stamps?

 
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Posted 09/24/2017   12:17 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Rob Roy to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
The stamps don't carry the country name.
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Posted 09/24/2017   12:31 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 22crows to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There's a thread on Stampboards that might be of interest:

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopi...f=10&t=28409

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Posted 09/24/2017   01:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add TheArtfulHinger to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A few of them will turn up in German kiloware from time to time.
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After the year 2000, many European countries began allowing private mail couriers. I think most of these companies had already been involved with package delivery or similar services, so that mail pick up was a good fit for what they were already doing. Most of these couriers are local; they work in cities or states/provinces.

There is not a catalog for these items. None that I am aware of, anyway.
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Posted 09/24/2017   11:44 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ekbustad to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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There is not a catalog for these items. None that I am aware of, anyway.


Michel did issue a catalog for modern German private post stamps, dated 2006, but it is out of print now and there have been many more such stamps issued in the time since.
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Thank you all for your help.
I found a site mentioning 375 such stamps, issued between 1998-2015.
Are there other countries that have such private stamps? I know of Norway, I think.
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Posted 09/24/2017   5:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bookbndrbob to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here are a few from Europe: Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. You can run across Germany, U.K. and Italy frequently. Haven't seen any Norwegians.


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Posted 09/24/2017   5:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

New Zealand

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Posted 09/24/2017   6:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Rob Roy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
My mistake - I was thinking about the Norwegian official stamps, the "offentlig sak".
Sweden was the one with local stamps.
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