Canada Picture Postage Stamps

You know, I like those cukes (cucumbers) you know.

Now why does everyone talk differently than me?

Oh oh it looks like Canada Post will be issuing lots more of there own Picture Postage stamps in the future:

http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/per...murl11007590

This may only be a start!

Oh nooooo. And personalized postcards too!

The Indian Diwali holiday stamps and borders are a good idea, I'll give them that, but I wonder how many of these themed stamps they will make?

Christmas, all the other religious holidays too? Halloween, Easter, etc, etc?

I'll have to call my regular Post Office tomorrow and see if she has got any ordered or what the story is from her point of view.

Limited time offer (Diwali holiday) from Canada Post:

Lotus Flower . . or . . Candles (Diyas)


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If this keeps up I wonder if they will use the same designs every year or change the design, perhaps depending on how the previous trials sold (or not)?

They say they will stamp your postcard. I wonder what stamp they will use? Or an endicia of some sort? Maybe one of the Canadian Bank Note personal stamps already being used for the personal stamp mailings?

Have to order some and find out!

All this new stamps idea seems to be aimed more at the Blackberry, Apple and Android using crowd I think. Downloadable Apps online at the link provided by Bee See above.

These Apps are something I guess. Don't have any myself but my nephew was showing me his over the weekend. Personalized programs is all they are I guess as I see it.

It's like you called Picture Postage 'Stamp Apps' and it took off as a fad or something.

Puzzler, these Diwali are not aimed at the Blackberry, Apple and Android using crowd. It is now been learned that there will be two for Diwali (now available), two for Eid (mid-October) and two for Hanukkah (mid-November). If Canada Post sells them or sponsors them, in my mind they are official stamps, like the Write me Ring me and the Acrobat Ski issue.

The Ski issue just seemed a one-of to me, and perhaps to others at the time, but Now, with these religious stamps (what a cool use of the Picture Postage program) they do seem official.

Them being available online or through select Post Offices makes it all the more official, especially if you have a receipt from the Post Office stating what they are.




Aimed was perhaps a strong word. 'An introduction to stamps', perhaps?

I had meant, in a rather circumlocutional manner I grant you, that the advertising bar across the page at Canada Post, letting us download the designing Apps for the different machines, was indicative of the availability of these stamps (and other future Picture Postage issues) to this 'crowd' (sorry about the use of that word) (I myself am out of date, I would usually have these gadgets and toys and tools myself first thing), and that these stamps might well be the introduction to stamps and stamp collecting that the New Electronic Age has.

I like the designs, I like the idea, Bravo to Canada Post's new top guy!

Where these is the Details magazine or Collections mag?

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Close ups of the tops of the two keepsake sheets, photos courtesy of Canada Post, both using the 'photo album' style of framing or border.

Note the bar code and the 'sheet printing number' (plate number(?)) are in the same placement as the regular Picture Postage stamps, different than the first 2004 issue of the original (green maple leaf picture) stamps where the bar code was in the upper right corner and there was no sheet number. These sheets also have the 'date printed' numbers in the lower left corners.

I haven't been following the tagging strength on these (some early personal stamps had weaker tagging) but would be curious to find out.





To repeat Bee See's link to the Canada Post page on these stamps or to order them from Canada Post (regular shopping basket, not through Picture Postage's shopping basket):
http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/per...murl11007590

I called my regular Post Office and the most pleasant lady told me that she had not received any notification of these stamps as of yet and suggested I call the main Philatelic Centre or order them online.

I do like the pricing of these stamps I must say.

A Diwali themed keepsake sheet of 20 + 1 stamps and the keepsake photo is $17.90 (plus taxes) which is only 85c a stamp (before tax) compared to the regular order-your-own with your own photo keepsake sheet's pricing of $27.95 which is $1.33 per stamp.

Of course ordering a sheet of 40 stamps ($44.75 = $1.12/stamp) or multiple sheets drops the price per stamp somewhat.

I notice that when ordering now they ask you what is this of, your photo? Who is in the photo, where was it taken, etc? Animals and such are lumped all together but they are trying to separate out people shown on stamps to most likely help them to determine if showing this person at this place is appropriate to a Canada stamp. Good idea I think. Perhaps also a way to keep a record of what is on the stamps if they can release the information (probably not).

Howdy all:
Nice cover Puzzler - muchos appreciated
Does anyone know what this stamp is picturing. It has me puzzled
Please let me know if you figure it out???
Cheers

I was puzzling over that one myself when I saw it on ebay.

The jagged earth cut-a-way is just an artists drawing of the earth removed so we can see to the underground workings of some sort of mine.

I think, now that I see a close-up of it (thank you) it is a mine shaft and gallery(ies) and the mine top or head or whatever the name is (not a mine person), that meaning the buildings at the top of a mine shaft.

The horizontal shaft running across the stamp has a narrow gauge train pictured below it I think, the three little black engine and cars (or wagons as the others call them).

This must be somewhere with large caverns already naturally existing because of the pictured caves and rock galleries below, along side the man made tunnels and shafts.

Above at ground level you have the tailings pile and a conveyor to do something. Geology was not my strong suit.

The trick with this one will be to determine what is being mined here and where.

Leave it to the Puzzler to solve the puzzle. Well done

Diwali Picture Postage stamps thread by studystamps:
https://goscf.com/t/19678

Eid Picture Postage stamps thread by studystamps:
https://goscf.com/t/19679

25 pages already for this thread? Wow! :)

I tried to design a VLAD THE IMPALER portrait personalized stamp in 2006, but Canada Post, on a second thought, rejected the initially-approved design and refunded my money, saying that "he was a criminal"...
Hmmm!...:)...
How many medieval rulers and non-rulers have killed people in combat, or sentenced to death criminals and invading enemies, as well [oh, maybe not quite AS WELL :) ]?
The American vendors (zazzle, etc.) rejected the portrait as well, because "he was a historic personality".
Yep, he sure was.
So?
:)
But Australia Post had NO PROBLEM.
And TNT Netherlands had NO PROBLEM, either.
http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/...evil-or.html
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/...dCarND-1.png
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/...dDesND-1.png
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/...raliaPS2.jpg

Should I try again with Canada Post? :)

Maybe just do a pic of his castle or map or something? I think too many people know of Vlad now thanks to the media and all the Vampire movies and TV shows and books.

I will not speak for their standards at different times. You could try again, perhaps they have reconsidered by now?