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Skeleton on a postage stamp: you can feel the bones!

Written in: Dutch • Jacqueline van der Pas • September 8 2011

Skeletons have been quite in the news lately. First came the report that a skeleton at a school in New Zealand turned out to be made of real human bones. A week later, it was about a skeleton again. In a te...

What makes a stamp exciting?

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • 2 February 2009

Netherlands post sport

Many postal services are asking themselves: how can I sell even more stamps without offering a 'service' in return? The Netherlands is no exception. In recent years, we have seen this with stamps featuring peculiarities such as 'with scent', hidden...

rob over Hamlet: This is a translation error, which should be corrected by now. If 'Hamlet' is viewed as a word rather than a name, it simply means…

Bate Hylkema over 1951 issue of children's stamps a world first: View this article as an introduction to the article containing special news that will appear shortly. The perspective of… is striking.

rob over Collection 91: Janneke Brinkman-Salentijn: As a result of the termination of PostNL's sponsorship of Postzegelblog/Freestampagazine, we are currently not archiving/publishing Collect me…

rob over The Faroe Islands have four underwater tunnels.: The majority of the articles, at least those from after 2016, can now simply be found on Freestampmagazine. Everything is now also available in six languages.

Hans over Collection 91: Janneke Brinkman-Salentijn: The link to the Collect Magazines archive does not work. Hopefully, that is fixable. Kind regards, Hans

Groeneweg over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unfortunately, I have already heard that the funeral mail sent with priority on Monday was not delivered on Tuesday😏 This despite the delivery at the sortery…