ORANGES and other Orange Citrus Fruit

I am describing my experience as a Romanian buyer of stamps from the US and Sweden.
Both envelopes have the size of 230 x 180 mm and there were approximately 300-400 stamps in them.





The Swedish plain paper envelope (stamps evenly distributed over the entire surface and protected in a plastic foil envelope) was no more than 3-4 mm thick and arrived quickly and in perfect condition.
The US paper envelope with plastic bubbles on the inside (stamps placed in 7-8 glassine envelopes) was more than 15 mm thick.
I suspect that any envelope that raises suspicions that it does not contain, according to the law, only correspondence, is checked by customs.
This also happened with the US envelope, which the next day was returned to the US with the mention that it did not comply with customs requirements.
The American sender (it was a gift) was kind and filled out a customs declaration (so that the recipient from Romania does not have to pay customs taxes, be sure to mention that it is a gift, that the value should not exceed 45 Euros and that the stamps are no longer worth postage)
I suspect that in other countries the checking of envelopes is done not only visually - but also by scanning - and in this case you can see the contents with stamps - which fall into the "goods" category - and problems start to appear.
That's why I use (to the displeasure of some correspondents who collect envelopes) envelopes as simple as possible, stamped with usual stamps without anything special that would attract the suspicion that they contain something other than correspondence.
And yet the last 2 envelopes to Canada did not arrive or the correspondents forgot to confirm.

peter thank you for the updated information. Jeff

Not to detract from REL1948 's heart-felt and complimentary posting for JeffS efforts of which, I am sure, we all support, I would like to think that the article which appeared in the most recent edition of "The American Philatelist" made the distinction between topical and thematic collecting.

Jeff's thematic collection truly does cover the breadth and depth of the citrus topicals...


Have fun and happy collecting!

Pic finally added to previous Oranges post.

I second and am always proud of the Newfoundland stamp from JeffS !!

René

Thank you Chris. The collection/project has grown far beyond any depth that I initially imagined. One can’t have too many friends looking out for our interests.