What did you acquire for postcrossing?

jaenelle · July 10, 2022, 4:22am

My fiancée took me to Papemelroti, a famous Filipino paper goods store. They have great postcards so I was able to get several more designs I did not yet have.

MAKIKO-S · July 10, 2022, 5:00am

I tend to get movie flyers, tourist information, and the like, thinking it would be nice to include them when I send them in an envelope.

MAKIKO-S · July 10, 2022, 6:25am

A stamp jointly issued by France and Japan was released last year.

Waxwingshadow · July 10, 2022, 6:35am

What beautiful stamps! I collect books for children and love illustrations. Thank you for sharing!

nyassa · July 10, 2022, 9:14am

There is a long list in Wikipedia

honzuki · July 10, 2022, 6:20pm

Have a look here : What are some joint issue stamps that your country released?

Waxwingshadow · July 10, 2022, 7:22pm

Thank you for the link. I really enjoyed looking through all the collaboration stamps. The next time I’m going stamp shopping, I’ll take photos of more joint issue stamps. There are very beautiful Singapore ones for sure. I actually got a postcard once from Singapore with a joint Russia-Singapore stamp. There are Russia-Japan (flowers) and Russia-Armenia (the capitals’ skyscrapers) that I remember well. The Wikipedia list is not up to date. It’s fun to learn all these small facts about stamps while postcrossing. It’s something that I didn’t even think about when I started sending out postcards

paulinexong · July 11, 2022, 6:12am

So I got this container to store my washi tape, but the slots were too small. Luckily it works perfectly to store all my postage stamps! I used to have my postage stamps in 3 different places. It was really hard to know what I had, and I kept buying more than I needed

Hopefully this helps with that issue!

MAKIKO-S · July 11, 2022, 1:40pm

I know what you mean!!! I too have a lot of stamps because I don’t keep track of what I have. I bought a file yesterday and organized it and was again shocked at how many stamps I have.

rhuqesmail · July 11, 2022, 2:09pm

India issues lots of joint stamps each year. I have these in my collection.

Older ones are hard to get, but recent ones are easily available and I use them for postage as well.

India-Russia is my favourite

Fancy_fingerling · July 12, 2022, 1:03pm

I have joint-issue stamps of Russia and India. Yes, they are bright and beautiful, and I like them too. But my stamps (bought in Russia) are slightly different from yours in design. The idea is the same, they can be recognized by the photo, but still the stamps are different. And in the Russian version there is no such beautiful sheet with a background of buildings. The stamps are located on a square sheet, 3x3 pieces, and in the center is a square with an inscription about the joint issue. So, as it turned out, the stamps of joint issues are not an exact copy, they are only similar. I didn’t know about it before.