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This morning the Faroese Philatelic News 1/2007 (Danish Edition) landed in
my mailbox with the news announcing the formation of the SEPAC-group -- Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation -- and the group's first common stamp issue on 1 Oct 2007. The group consists of the following postal administrations: - Aland Post - Postverk Foroya - Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau - Post Greenland - Guernsey Post Ltd - Iceland Post - Isle of Man Post - Jersey Post ltd - Liechtenstein Post Corp. - Maltapost plc - Monaco Post - San Marino Post. The purpose of the SEPAC-group's efforts is to further youth philately in relation to promoting general knowledge about the history, nature, landscapes and cultures of the European countries that are members of the group, and through this work to introduce a new thematic collecting area. The first common stamp issue of the SEPAC-group, is "landscapes". Each of the participating countries may interpret the given thematic issuances their own The group's first common issue will be released on 1 Oct, 2007, with the participation of 11 of the 12 member countries. Only San Marino will not participate this first year. Further common SEPAC-issues are planned for 2009 and 2011, when also San Marino (and eventual new members of the group) is expected to participate. The official launch of the new group and it's purpose will take place on 3 May 2007 at the International Stamp Fair in Essen, Germany, and the folder "Beautiful Corners of Europe", containing a stamp from each of the 11 participating countries with the group's logo, attractive photographs and informative texts, will be offered for sale. --- My personal comment to this is that it seems a good initiative to attract youth collectors to our hobby in this informal ay. Without knowledge of the historical background of a particular stamp, it is nothing more than a graphically designed price-tag with no other information or general interest than its actual cost and possible tupos, which will hardly generate wide interest except to philatelists who make a "science" out of their collections, whereas "visual entertainment and information" will appeal also to youth collectors of all ages. Times simply change :-) So, my personal very best wishes to the new group :-) Mette |
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:37:11 +0200, "Mette"
wrote: In a sense, this is almost creating a small British Commonwealth type of thing where omnibus type issues can be designed, printed and sold. Look out Ralph! Your "joint issue" club has just expanded! Many of these places are almost remnants of a past time, but it is good to see that some "legitimacy" has been tagged onto their purpose. Where's Andorra? This may bring some people into the fold, much like the older colonial issues brought me in, with pictures of faraway places and topics unheard of in the states. Since then, the Internet has helped make the world a smaller place, therefore reducing some of that "mystery" by other pieces of data. Not so much that the dream or mystery that philately brings, but besides informing people this may also be great advertising! I have heard from many people that some of these places are questionable for postal releases in sizes they print them, but at least the people may be getting back a littler more than a piece of printed paper and some gum or S/A sticky stuff. I hope this does help out bringing new collectors into the fold. For those who already collect these areas, this may be a bright spot in their future. This morning the Faroese Philatelic News 1/2007 (Danish Edition) landed in my mailbox with the news announcing the formation of the SEPAC-group -- Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation -- and the group's first common stamp issue on 1 Oct 2007. The group consists of the following postal administrations: - Aland Post - Postverk Foroya - Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau - Post Greenland - Guernsey Post Ltd - Iceland Post - Isle of Man Post - Jersey Post ltd - Liechtenstein Post Corp. - Maltapost plc - Monaco Post - San Marino Post. The purpose of the SEPAC-group's efforts is to further youth philately in relation to promoting general knowledge about the history, nature, landscapes and cultures of the European countries that are members of the group, and through this work to introduce a new thematic collecting area. The first common stamp issue of the SEPAC-group, is "landscapes". Each of the participating countries may interpret the given thematic issuances their own The group's first common issue will be released on 1 Oct, 2007, with the participation of 11 of the 12 member countries. Only San Marino will not participate this first year. Further common SEPAC-issues are planned for 2009 and 2011, when also San Marino (and eventual new members of the group) is expected to participate. The official launch of the new group and it's purpose will take place on 3 May 2007 at the International Stamp Fair in Essen, Germany, and the folder "Beautiful Corners of Europe", containing a stamp from each of the 11 participating countries with the group's logo, attractive photographs and informative texts, will be offered for sale. --- My personal comment to this is that it seems a good initiative to attract youth collectors to our hobby in this informal ay. Without knowledge of the historical background of a particular stamp, it is nothing more than a graphically designed price-tag with no other information or general interest than its actual cost and possible tupos, which will hardly generate wide interest except to philatelists who make a "science" out of their collections, whereas "visual entertainment and information" will appeal also to youth collectors of all ages. Times simply change :-) So, my personal very best wishes to the new group :-) Mette |
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Mette wrote:
This morning the Faroese Philatelic News 1/2007 (Danish Edition) landed in my mailbox with the news announcing the formation of the SEPAC-group -- Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation -- and the group's first common stamp issue on 1 Oct 2007. The group consists of the following postal administrations: - Aland Post - Postverk Foroya - Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau - Post Greenland - Guernsey Post Ltd - Iceland Post - Isle of Man Post - Jersey Post ltd - Liechtenstein Post Corp. - Maltapost plc - Monaco Post - San Marino Post. The purpose of the SEPAC-group's efforts is to further youth philately in relation to promoting general knowledge about the history, nature, landscapes and cultures of the European countries that are members of the group, and through this work to introduce a new thematic collecting area. Hi, Luxemburg has joined in, I believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_E...on_Cooperation - I am surprised that a criteria for entering SEPAC is "a small market with more than 50% of its philatelic customers living outside the country" - I am surprised that full EU member states (Luxemburg and Malta) are in it. I lack full information, but obviously this could be just a gimmick to sell more stamps. I don't quite get the "postal" side of this association, apart from boosting stamps selling. Are there side agreements regarding mail activities ? -- Best regards, Bruno |
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skrev i en meddelelse ... On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:37:11 +0200, "Mette" wrote: In a sense, this is almost creating a small British Commonwealth type of thing where omnibus type issues can be designed, printed and sold. Look out Ralph! Your "joint issue" club has just expanded! Many of these places are almost remnants of a past time, but it is good to see that some "legitimacy" has been tagged onto their purpose. Where's Andorra? A small place in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, not so far away from the Mediterrenean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/an.html This may bring some people into the fold, much like the older colonial issues brought me in, with pictures of faraway places and topics unheard of in the states. Since then, the Internet has helped make the world a smaller place, therefore reducing some of that "mystery" by other pieces of data. Not so much that the dream or mystery that philately brings, but besides informing people this may also be great advertising! Yes, and promoting tourism I have heard from many people that some of these places are questionable for postal releases in sizes they print them, It may well be so, but their stamps are fully legitimate. but at least the people may be getting back a littler more than a piece of printed paper and some gum or S/A sticky stuff. |
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"bc92" skrev i en meddelelse ... Mette wrote: This morning the Faroese Philatelic News 1/2007 (Danish Edition) landed in my mailbox with the news announcing the formation of the SEPAC-group -- Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation -- and the group's first common stamp issue on 1 Oct 2007. The group consists of the following postal administrations: - Aland Post - Postverk Foroya - Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau - Post Greenland - Guernsey Post Ltd - Iceland Post - Isle of Man Post - Jersey Post ltd - Liechtenstein Post Corp. - Maltapost plc - Monaco Post - San Marino Post. The purpose of the SEPAC-group's efforts is to further youth philately in relation to promoting general knowledge about the history, nature, landscapes and cultures of the European countries that are members of the group, and through this work to introduce a new thematic collecting area. Hi, Luxemburg has joined in, I believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_E...on_Cooperation It could well be, but is not mentioned in the philatelic bulletin quoted. - I am surprised that a criteria for entering SEPAC is "a small market with more than 50% of its philatelic customers living outside the country" - I am surprised that full EU member states (Luxemburg and Malta) are in it. Why? There are other postal associations with both EU-members and non-members, e.g. the Nordic Postal Association (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Faeroes, Finland). The criteria for joining seems to be that it should be a small European state. At present I could think of Cyprus. I lack full information, but obviously this could be just a gimmick to sell more stamps. Earlier the postal administrations were 100% stately owned, with focus on keeping costs down. Now they are privatized, with focus on making money to the shareholders. Seems fair enough. I don't quite get the "postal" side of this association, apart from boosting stamps selling. Are there side agreements regarding mail activities ? Not that I know of so far. As said in my post, I have quote what is mentioned in the Faeroese Bulletin. The Official launch will be early May in Essen. Mette |
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dear Bruno,
I think you hit the point! There's no postal sense in that. Postally Liechtenstein relies on Switzerland, Andorra wasn't in the list as postally it's divided between France and Spain, and so on. In the Netherlands we have quite a lot of nice islands, some of them may join their German and Danish neighbouring islands to form a philatelic brotherhood that can pleasure us with their of postal and cultural traditions... groetjes, Rein PS Sorry, Mette, but I won't get foo..ooled again... Op Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:52:16 +0200 schreef bc92 : Hi, Luxemburg has joined in, I believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_E...on_Cooperation - I am surprised that a criteria for entering SEPAC is "a small market with more than 50% of its philatelic customers living outside the country" - I am surprised that full EU member states (Luxemburg and Malta) are in it. I lack full information, but obviously this could be just a gimmick to sell more stamps. I don't quite get the "postal" side of this association, apart from boosting stamps selling. Are there side agreements regarding mail activities ? -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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skrev i en meddelelse ... On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:37:11 +0200, "Mette" wrote: In a sense, this is almost creating a small British Commonwealth type of thing where omnibus type issues can be designed, printed and sold. Look out Ralph! Your "joint issue" club has just expanded! Many of these places are almost remnants of a past time, but it is good to see that some "legitimacy" has been tagged onto their purpose. Where's Andorra? Reading Rein's post, I can just say "silly me" !!! I simply misunderstood your question. Please forget that I ever answered :-) |
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:23:49 +0200, "Mette"
wrote: skrev i en meddelelse .. . On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:37:11 +0200, "Mette" wrote: In a sense, this is almost creating a small British Commonwealth type of thing where omnibus type issues can be designed, printed and sold. Look out Ralph! Your "joint issue" club has just expanded! Many of these places are almost remnants of a past time, but it is good to see that some "legitimacy" has been tagged onto their purpose. Where's Andorra? A small place in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, not so far away from the Mediterrenean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/an.html I gnu dat! It was a "rhetorical" question, like "Why hasn't Andorra joined up?" - :^P This may bring some people into the fold, much like the older colonial issues brought me in, with pictures of faraway places and topics unheard of in the states. Since then, the Internet has helped make the world a smaller place, therefore reducing some of that "mystery" by other pieces of data. Not so much that the dream or mystery that philately brings, but besides informing people this may also be great advertising! Yes, and promoting tourism Absolutement! I have heard from many people that some of these places are questionable for postal releases in sizes they print them, It may well be so, but their stamps are fully legitimate. Yes, that may be true, but when your GNP is 80% stamps, what does that say? I read in an article that when Liechtenstein needs capital, they print stamps. but at least the people may be getting back a littler more than a piece of printed paper and some gum or S/A sticky stuff. |
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:17:12 +0200, "Mette"
wrote: skrev i en meddelelse .. . On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:37:11 +0200, "Mette" wrote: In a sense, this is almost creating a small British Commonwealth type of thing where omnibus type issues can be designed, printed and sold. Look out Ralph! Your "joint issue" club has just expanded! Many of these places are almost remnants of a past time, but it is good to see that some "legitimacy" has been tagged onto their purpose. Where's Andorra? Reading Rein's post, I can just say "silly me" !!! I simply misunderstood your question. Please forget that I ever answered :-) Aha! Caught red-handed. That's quite OK, we all do it from time to time. |
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On Apr 21, 11:29�am, wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:37:11 +0200, "Mette" wrote: In a sense, this is almost creating a small British Commonwealth type of thing where omnibus type issues can be designed, printed and sold. Look out Ralph! *Your "joint issue" club has just expanded! Many of these places are almost remnants of a past time, but it is good to see that some "legitimacy" has been tagged onto their purpose. Where's Andorra? This may bring some people into the fold, much like the older colonial issues brought me in, with pictures of faraway places and topics unheard of in the states. *Since then, the Internet has helped make the world a smaller place, therefore reducing some of that "mystery" by other pieces of data. Not so much that the dream or mystery that philately brings, but besides informing people this may also be great advertising! I have heard from many people that some of these places are questionable for postal releases in sizes they print them, but at least the people may be getting back a littler more than a piece of printed paper and some gum or S/A sticky stuff. I hope this does help out bringing new collectors into the fold. *For those who already collect these areas, this may be a bright spot in their future. This morning the Faroese Philatelic News 1/2007 (Danish Edition) landed in my mailbox with the news announcing the formation of the SEPAC-group -- Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation -- and the group's first common stamp issue on 1 Oct 2007. The group consists of the following postal administrations: - Aland Post - Postverk Foroya - Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau - Post Greenland - Guernsey Post Ltd - Iceland Post - Isle of Man Post - Jersey Post ltd - Liechtenstein Post Corp. - Maltapost plc - Monaco Post - San Marino Post. The purpose of the SEPAC-group's efforts is to further youth philately in relation to promoting general knowledge about the history, nature, landscapes and cultures of the European countries that are members of the group, and through this work to introduce a new thematic collecting area. The first common stamp issue of the SEPAC-group, is "landscapes". Each of the participating countries may interpret the given thematic issuances their own *The group's first common issue will be released on 1 Oct, 2007, with the participation of 11 of the 12 member countries. Only San Marino will not participate this first year. Further common SEPAC-issues are planned for 2009 and 2011, when also San Marino (and eventual new members of the group) is expected to participate. The official launch of the new group and it's purpose will take place on 3 May 2007 at the International Stamp Fair in Essen, Germany, and the folder "Beautiful Corners of Europe", containing a stamp from each of the 11 participating countries with the group's logo, attractive photographs and informative texts, will be offered for sale. --- My personal comment to this is that it seems a good initiative to attract youth collectors to our hobby in this informal ay. Without knowledge of the historical background of a particular stamp, it is nothing more than a graphically designed price-tag with no other information or general interest than its actual cost and possible tupos, which will hardly generate wide interest except to philatelists who make a "science" out of their collections, whereas "visual entertainment and information" will appeal also to youth collectors of all ages. Times simply change :-) So, my personal very best wishes to the new group :-) Mette- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Well, since my cage has been rattled I must insert my three cents. (Inflation you know!) I was not aware of the SEAPAC issue. AFAIK this issue does not meet the criteria to classify it as a joint issue. This year Canada, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland Norway, Sweden and the USA have a joint issue called the International Polar Year. These are not of a common design so I will not collect them. Also this year Faroes, Greenland and Iceland have the 10th anniversary of the West Nordic Cooperation. Unsure about this one, I haven't seen it yet. Ralphael, trhe OLD one |
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