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Substantive stamp issues 'Nature and Environment' 1996 & 1997

Written in: Dutch • redactie • May 2, 2021

When various stamp issues are compared, one might expect eye-opening conclusions to be drawn. Yet this does not always happen. A commercially minded company like PostNL makes different decisions for financial reasons, decisions that are less attractive to philatelists....

Experience nature – stinsen plants

Written in: Dutch • redactie • March 3 2019

After five "Experience Nature" stamp sheets, the sixth stamp sheet (Experience Nature - Stinsen Plants, issue date February 25) in this series of eight sheets focuses on the stinsen flora. This particularly special group of flowers blooms in early spring. The flowers are...

Bate Hijlkema over Unique identification Mourning stamp Netherlands Prio: The accompanying short, bitter reaction appeared in the Leeuwarder Courant of July 18: "PostNL is making bereavement mail 130 percent more expensive. So you would...

Willem Meerkerk over Self-adhesive or gummed, what do you collect?: I collect the annual collection of Dutch stamps. That automatically means that I collect gummed and self-adhesive stamps. The perforated…

Lars over Self-adhesive or gummed, what do you collect?: I collect both, though I prefer not to have mint self-adhesive ones. You never know how they will stand the test of time. Just look at the Nede…

Lars over Mouth-watering tart stamps with a sweet scent: One advantage of self-adhesive stamps is that people cannot tear off the perforations. Of the gummed stamps used, you can alti…

Rob over Chessboard on stamp sheet: @Elizadoug I always use the Google Translate app with the camera function myself.

Willem Meerkerk over Mouth-watering tart stamps with a sweet scent: I do see a trend in PostNL's new issues. More and more "self-adhesive" stamps, just like with the 2026 children's stamps. htt…