Do you have some stamps from your country that have very very low value? and how many of those stamps you need to put on a postcard if you want to send it?
Stamp with the lowest value from my country Slovakia :
0,01€ = 150 stamps to Europe (120 to Czech Repubic ), 160 stamps to other parts of the World
On the stamp you can see Chapel of St. Margaret near Kopčany - one of the oldest buildings in Slovakia built in Great Moravia times - 9th - 10th century.
There are a variety of 1 cent stamps over the years from the USPS, the most current being the fruit stamp. There is also 2012’s bobcat stamp and 1999’s Tiffany Lamp stamp. There are many more. You would need 44 of these to mail a postcard within the US or 140 of these to mail a postcard or letter internationally.
The lowest stamp denomination currently available in India is 25 paise. There are two varieties that can be got now. One of them is on Mahatma Gandhi and the other on Yoga. Will need 60 of them to send an international postcard other than to our neighbours.
You would need 52 of these to send a postcard abroad… I have 55 at home right now…
The second lowest are 1 and 2 SEK stamps, and the trend during past few years have been issuing mostly domestic or very high values so my guess is that we are not gonna see any new low values anytime soon. But because you can use any mint stamps no matter how old they are, there are still plenty even lower values available on auction and collector sites. I think my lowest value stamps that still can be used are 5 öre stamps.
The national stamp costs 3.60 PLN (the cheapest) and abroad costs 8 PLN. To send a postcard abroad using only 5 gr stamps, I would have to use 160 of them . I would have to put 72 such stamps on a postcard to Poland. Impossible…
Our postage rates increase effective today, and it would cost me $3.70 to send a postcard to Slovakia. So I would need 74 of these stamps to send a postcard to you!
I can buy smaller denomination (old issue) stamps on places like eBay. I have some one cent stamps from 1973 that are in mint condition and are legally allowed to be used to send…but I’d need 370 of them!
ETA: Actually…because those old stamps are technically domestic stamps - not international stamps…I would normally need to pay 10% more for postage to cover the GST that was included in the domestic stamp price, meaning that I’d need 407 of them instead! BUT…these particular stamps being from 1973, were issued before GST was introduced here…so maybe I wouldn’t need to pay the extra. I’m not sure…and my head hurts just thinking about it .
Either way, the postcard would need to be waaaaay bigger than the maximum allowable size - in order to fit them all on!
I’ve recently got a random bunch of stamps through from Philatelink, and got some half (1/2) pence stamps! I’ll get a photo of mine later, but they look like this:
I don’t think I could fit 370 stamps on a postcard!
They are no longer available to buy from the post office. But they are easily to find from stamp dealer. They are not rare just need to find the correct source to get them. Resale value is very low. And not much demand for them because they are definitives stamps.
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), 160 stamps to other parts of the World
. I would have to put 72 such stamps on a postcard to Poland. Impossible…
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