Post by Andy Pastuszak on Sept 1, 2013 2:23:47 GMT
My mother has ready access to used Ukrainian Postage Stamps. I collect MNH, but I take the postally used stamps she gets and pass them along to a collector near me.
I've noticed something about how people in Ukraine use postage...
EVERYTHING is used as postage. Souvenir sheets, mini-sheets, commemoratives and definitives. Everyone buys all kinds of stamps. Stamps almost always include selvage. If a package requires postage that equals a whole sheet of stamps, they wet and stick the WHOLE SHEET on, selvage and all, on the package. I have also received complete postally used souvenir sheets. As a matter of fact, I have never seen a stamp from a souvenir sheet without the whole sheet.
Strips of stamps always have selvage also.
Though I have never been to Ukraine, from what I see, I strongly suspect that they don't have metered mail. Every package or letter gets stamps on it.
And the stamps I order from ukrposhta always have stamps on the envelope, though they are always definitives.
I've noticed something about how people in Ukraine use postage...
EVERYTHING is used as postage. Souvenir sheets, mini-sheets, commemoratives and definitives. Everyone buys all kinds of stamps. Stamps almost always include selvage. If a package requires postage that equals a whole sheet of stamps, they wet and stick the WHOLE SHEET on, selvage and all, on the package. I have also received complete postally used souvenir sheets. As a matter of fact, I have never seen a stamp from a souvenir sheet without the whole sheet.
Strips of stamps always have selvage also.
Though I have never been to Ukraine, from what I see, I strongly suspect that they don't have metered mail. Every package or letter gets stamps on it.
And the stamps I order from ukrposhta always have stamps on the envelope, though they are always definitives.
