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Het is algemeen bekend, dat Nederlanders graag klagen. En niet alleen over het weer. Ook over de binnenlandse tarieven wordt geklaagd. Momenteel moet er € 1,01 betaald worden voor een binnenlandse brief van 20 gram. Evenveel als in 2022, Zoals u hier al heeft kunnen …
A ‘luchtbrief’ (air letter, with an imprinted 35c stamp) is not a rare postal item. However, the one pictured here from the Ad de Goede collection (which will be auctioned at René Hillesum Filatelie on 23 September) is special. Its destination is common place: to …
This parcel card from Dorchester, England 1978 to Biddinghuizen, near Lelystad in the Netherlands. Entered the country in Rotterdam and presented by post office clarks to the customs.
Sometimes you will find nice, attractive items because of a (correct) combination not often used.
Today, the minimum size of a letter or card which PostNL will accept is 140 × 90 mm. However, in 1948 Anneke Dronkers announced that she was married in Pembroke, England using a much smaller envelope.
It is always nice to find a not every day combination of postal services which leads to a single franking.
Anton van der Valk (1884 – 1975) has illustrated under his pseudonym Ton van Tast several brochures issued by P.T.T. Among them the booklets both titled “Hoe help ik de post en mijzelf” (How do I help the post and myself). With numerous illustrations the …
Obviously there has been (at least in 1955) an international agreement for forwarding letters from one country to an other and have them sent free of charge via a state owned colleague institute. In this case a letter of the United States department of Agriculture/Official …
On January first, 1922 the uniform postal identity card was introduced, as agreed on the Congress in Madrid of the Universal Postal Union in 1920. The cards were uniform for all member countries and were produced in Switzerland. In basic they were the same (a …
The Queen Wilhelmina type Veth series from 1924-1926 may justifiably be called one of the most beautiful and interesting designs. In the first place the beautiful picture on the stamps, and second in the long term validity (until March 31st, 1944) and thirdly the rates- …
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