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Yesss! It’s amazing, thank you very much dear! I will send pm :smiley::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

For the Swedish speakers or learners, there is a RR with an open group “write me in Swedish” if some are interested :
https://community.postcrossing.com/t/world-languages-rr-new-groups-added/3898

Hi everyone! I will be traveling to Sweden in May and would like to send (from Sweden) a birthday gift to my friend in Belarus. Could you please tell me if mail to Belarus has been suspended like mail to Russia? I just don’t want to carry a box with my gift around if I can’t send it…
Thanks!

All mail from Sweden to Belarus is currently suspended without a notice on when the route would be open again. You can check again closer to your travel date.

Thank you!

Different topic

Hello everyone! Very sorry to write in this meetup group! But it was the best way to find Norwegians who can help me!
Soon I will be moving to Norway and was wondering if anyone can give me further informations of stamps in Norway! I found this site, where you can buy stamps!
However, I can only see quite less stamps + there isn’t a picture next to the stamp, I always have to click on it. Thus I was wondering if there is another way to buy stamps or if I can buy more different ones somewhere?
Thank you so so much!! Would love to keep on writing postcards in Norway (even tho I have to limit myself more, since sadly postcards are more expensive).
Have a nice day,
Alessia :blush:

Hi @Eyvindr! I’ve moved your post to the visitors corner in #communities:scandinavia, as it fits much better here.

If you want to buy stamps from Posten, you have to use the website you mentioned or go to a Posten counter in a (grocery store) (or post office if you’re lucky to live close to one of the very few remaining ones).
It’s also possible to buy stamps from Roschberg Mynthandel AS, Asker Mynt and Tubfrim (and possibly others as well). If you buy stamps from these places, you pay less than face value.

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@Norway_girl thank you so very much for your reply!! I also didn’t know where to ask this question, so it’s perfect that you moved it here :blush:

Is there a year when stamps expire in Norway? And can I also combine stamps like the inland ones so I can use them to mail abroad?
And this stamp for example:


I only see the one for Oslo but not the Bergen one for example. Is it just sold out? like will the stamps disappear at some point? And do you also have specific postmarks for stamps, like when they are first published?

So sorry for all the questions! I am just a bit confused, since the post is so different in Norway.

No.

Yes, you can. As long as you add sufficient postage, you can use any stamp you want.

It wouldn’t surprise me of some stamps are sold out. The two stamps you showed were issued in 2020 to commorate anniversaries of Bergen and Moss. I guess Posten thought “These won’t be interesting to use after 2020” or something like that, and therefore they might have made few. The stamps says “Innland 50 g”, which means that one stamp is sufficient for an envelope between 21 g and 50 g inside Norway. I have to admit I never use these stamps. (But I could; they cost 25 NOK, so I could use them together with a 3 NOK stamp to Europe or a 9 NOK stamp to the rest of the world.) So there’s a chance one could still buy them from the post counters.

There might be special postmarks for the stamps in certain cases. Then I assume you’ll have to visit one of the two places in Oslo mentioned here on the day of the issue of the given stamp.

There are some special cancellations though, which aren’t linked to certain stamps. You can read about them here.


The stamps that say “Europa 20 g” can be used alone on postcards (and envelopes up to 20 g) to Europe. The entire Russia and Turkey count as Europe.
The stamps that say “Verden 20 g” can be used alone on postcards (+ envelopes up to 20 g) to countries outside Europe.
And in case you’re sending a postcard to someone in Norway, the ones that says “Innland 20 g” are the ones to be used.

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You have found the part of the site that sells stamps in rolls, 100 each. If you go here instead, you find all available stamp, including Bergen.

You say there are no pictures, but I can see thumbnails of all the stamps, so maybe you have to adjust your settings.

You can also buy stamp related products, like maxicards. You find them all from the start page on the order site, here.

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@Norway_girl and @borealis thank you so so much for your help!!
That is what I love about postcrossing that everyone is so helpful!
Now I am prepared to write some cards when I go to Norway! It is just a bit sad that the postal service is quite expensive :frowning:

I have one more question, do you by any chance now the measurements of the Eventyr og sagn Europa 20g stamps? I searched everywhere for the sizes but they state it nowhere!

These are the stamps I am talking about:
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Thank you so so much!! and this is really my last question :see_no_evil:

Hi to everyone,
Is somebody here from Lillehammer?
My Aunt forgot her Mobile Phone during her vacation in a Hotel in Lillehammer. They will not send it, someone must pick it up. Well, thats not easy since we all are located in Germany. She is 82 and want to have it back, since a lot of pictures were made with it.

So we need help and I thought that Postcrossers may be the best to ask :blush:
Address will follow then with Email.
Of course we will reimburse the postal fees!

@Frechdax - Since nobody have replied to you yet: You might want to go to the main site > explore > search and choose Norway, Innlandet, and Lillehammer or surrounding places to find members to ask for help.

Thank you!

Did you find someone to help you?

Yes, solution was found. Thank you! :blush:

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I hope it’s appropriate to post here to look for Icelandic participant for my Ukraine project; broadly speaking, Scandinavia includes Iceland.

I need someone who can go to a local post office in Iceland on the 24th of August – Ukraine’s national day – to ask for my Ukraine support postcard be postmarked. Anyone here willing to help?

You might have better luck if you browse through the main site and look for members in Iceland who have been active lately and open for private swaps, and then send them a message directly. The previous search for Iceland Postcrossers here have all gone unanswered or taken months to get reply, and it seems you have very little of time to find one. Good luck!

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Thank you for your advice. As a newly registered postcrosser, I am not allowed to message people but I have asked other forum members to do so in my name.

Hello everyone! I come to this corner of the forum to ask about how to write the address of a person living in Norway. I have a friend who is studying in Oslo at the moment and she isn’t sure how to write her address. I tried sending her a letter but it got returned because apparently we weren’t supposed to put the residential number? I found a page from the Norwegian post that explained how to write different addresses but I’m still not very certain about it. I noticed those examples always put ‘per post’ but I don’t know if that is something I must put or not. If anyone can help with this I would be ever so grateful!