Comments on: Cross shaped self-adhesives from Finland

By: FRED MUGURUZA

FRED MUGURUZA — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:20:13 +0000

I agree 100% with you… What a nasty Stamp!!! horrible!!! and useless!!! don’t send it to me or else!
Horrible stamp Keijo…

By: Keijo

Keijo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:31:40 +0000

I can only agree that many modern German stamps are quite boring – I can only wonder why. The current German flower definitives on the other hand are quite nice IMHO.

As for high postal rates, here’s a story… Some time ago I bought a 1kg box from Germany – postage to Finland (as DHL international parcel) was 9€. If I had shipped the same size/weight box from Finland to Germany by Itella (Finnish Post), it would have cost at least 36€.

By: T-M

T-M — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:36:46 +0000

I like this stamps, even if (or better: because) they are a bit unusual. Here in Germany there are only (quite boring) definitives for such low values.

I received some of them, but this is the first time I see a sheet of them.

In my opinion Finland isues many creative and interesting stamps, while most German stamps are quite boring.

BTW: I don’t think 80 Cent is very expensive. Here in germany a postcard is 65 cent for European countries, but 1 Euro for non-European countires. And letters to non-European countries are even 1,70 Euro. (Well, I have a way to send them much cheaper …)

By: Jayne Grenon

Jayne Grenon — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:05:06 +0000

I like them too, but I can see why you don’t
these should go under “Unusual Stamps” for sure.
Myself I like to find unusual stamps when I’m perusing in stamp mixes.

By: Keijo

Keijo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:31:08 +0000

Hi Carol,
the current Finnish rate for normal size/weight international postcard is 0.80€. So it would take 8 of these…. Low value’s such as these are mostly used as add-on stamps to keep up with everincreasing postal rates. That said, a bit suprisingly many Finnish postal rates may drop notably sometime next year as Itella (Finnish post) is investigated for unfair pricing on part of some basic postal services.

PS. For the same set, there is also 0.05€ value with a topic of “water”.