Australia Post Finally Admits......

It is issuing jam labels!

I reckon they have been doing it for years, just under different names.
Are they scraping the bottom of the barrel yet or can anyone suggest and even less 'worthy' subject for a stamp issue?

No doubt these stamps will fit into some collections and if you want to keep your Australian one complete...

Regards to all.
Ron.

What next? Kangaroo boxing gloves stamps?

Do we really think that this is better than the US issuing frozen treats?


Peter

Yes its better. At least I can look at the jam labels without loosing my cookies. The frozen treats are a national embarrassment.

Oh I like this issue. Fun bit of pop culture nostalgia that reects Australia's Agricultural heritage.

I mean, does every stamp issue have to be "serious" to be considered a worthy topic for release? I'd much rather see an issue program with a wide variety of themes that reflect the diversity of the country rather than one that just sticks to some old-school honoring of historic events and "important" people (or one that was all pop culture)

Yes you have Jam labels and TV legends so far this year, but you also have had the Convict Past and the beautiful Banksia flowers. QEII birthday stamps coming soon as well.

All in all a nice balance of "high brow" and "plebean" topics.

Frozen Treats is a nice concept, but a design fail for the USPS. But that has been a problem with most of the food related issued like Latin Delicioso from last year or the Ice Cream Shop a bit before. Actual pictures rather that artistic imagining would have been a much better design path.

Though I will say the designers on the USA Fruits low value definitives have done excellent jobs, if frozen treats were more along those lines design wise they would be much nicer.

Well, let's fill the dinner table:

I share DJCMHOH's point of view.

I would have preferred the National First day Postmark, to be JAMBIN Queensland, rather than Hobart.

Each to their own of course but gee I'm glad I stopped my Australia collection at 1988.

I think the U.S. Summer Harvest stamps from 2015 are quite attractive, too. They have a good "retro" look to them, like the Australian jam labels.

I actually like these stamps a lot, though I haven't seen them 'in the flesh' yet.

Old jam labels are very collectible items here - an actual can with intact label would probably sell for a couple of hundred dollars.

These ones are very old and the brands defunct well before I was born so they are probably excellent nostalgia for anyone over, say, 70.

There are many far worse subjects for stamps. You just have to look through the last 20 or so years of British stamps to see some really awful ones. (Modern British stamps are the pits in my book, followed closely by the Netherlands.)

They will be very pleasant to the eye when sorting kiloware.