I dislike this fetish. I got a really cool card of a urang utang that said: greetings from Malaysia. I looked at the written side and thought: ‘hmm this is German.’ I then looked at the stamp and I thought: ‘Ah the other day I bought these stamps myself.’ I read the card, thanked the person while registering and went on with my day.
For me it doesn’t matter much, for some it means the world. For me it’s annoying they want Dutch stamp while I live close to Germany and send my post there. I find the German stamps look a lot cooler. Don’t believe me? I can proof it pretty much.
Also it’s ironic the part of Germany where I send my cards from, has been a part of the Netherlands after world war 2, Germany was more or less forced to give it to the Netherlands. And then it was given back.
When I am there I see a lot of Dutch license plates and there are a lot of Dutch people living there. I guess if they would go to Amsterdam and back to Germany, they would just post it in Germany out of convenience.
That’s not to say I don’t understand them. However I often think… What makes it so important? That country and stamp match?
I got some North Korean propaganda cards for those that like them, but you cannot expect me to send those from North Korea.
Ah well this is more a rant from my side, and when you wrote about it I wanted to react.
I am somewhere in the middle of this debate (as a sender; as a recipient, I hardly care where ID/card/stamp is from). I can understand people wanting a ‘complete match’, but on the other side I don’t like this purist dogma per se. But there are some other threads where this is discussed, like the one given, so better we stay with YkyraP here
The slots have a width of 0,8 inch or 2,3 centimeters. A problem here in Germany is the fact, that all new stamps have a matrixcode and they are all bigger that this “nomal sized” stamps. So sooner or later we cannot buy stamp rolls of this. There are some values now no more available.
My husband and I do that all the time! A few years ago he had the idea to do a raid on the Chicago Loop Museum area gift shops, one after the other. Lots of fun. He made a game of parking as close to the entrance as possible; me, of shopping as quickly as possible.
TV anymore and you don’t miss it. Nothing is more fascinating than Postcrossing!
