Post Offices and Stamps – Page 5 – Global Postcard Sales

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Underwater Post Office – Waterproof – postman (Vanuatu)
Yes, true, the postal kiosk is underwater, at Hideaway Island Marine Sanctuary near Port Villa (sic) since 2003. And the postcard is waterproof. Unused, and postage paid, the brilliant card comes from Vanuatu Post. Grade: 1

Code: 34600168
Price: $18.00
Underwater Post Office – Waterproof – Hideaway Island (Vanuatu)
Another in Vanuatu’s series of novelty postcards (waterproof, and meant to be posted underwater), unused and with Vanuatu Post postage pre-paid. Grade: 1

Code: 34600169
Price: $15.00
Underwater Post Office – Waterproof – Hideaway Island Resort (Vanuatu)
Another in Vanuatu’s series of novelty postcards (waterproof, and meant to be posted underwater), unused and with Vanuatu Post postage pre-paid. On this card, the capital’s name (Port Vila) is spelled correctly. Grade: 1

Code: 34600170
Price: $15.00
150th Anniversary of Stamp Issuance in Hong Kong
From Hongkong Post’s Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 47, this single card issued with pre-printed global postage and mailed in 2016 with blue trilingual airmail label and special philatelic postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34600171
Price: $3.00
Phoenix Petrel (Tuvalu)
Scientific name: Pterodroma alba, on an unused card designed to replicate a stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 34600172
Price: $4.00
Crested Tern (Tuvalu)
Scientific name: Thalasseus bergii, on an unused card designed to replicate a stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 34600173
Price: $4.00
Sooty-tern (Tuvalu)
Scientific name: Sterna fuscata oahuensis, on an unused card designed to replicate a stamp (Grade: 1, $4). We also have one card mailed from Tuvalu in 2016, with colourful stamp and full postmark (Grade: 1, $7).

Code: 34600174
Price: $4.00
Bristle-thighed Curlew (Tuvalu)
Scientific name: Numenius tahitiensis, on an unused card designed to replicate a stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 34600175
Price: $4.00
Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (Tuvalu)
Scientific name: Limosa lapponica baueri, on an unused card designed to replicate a stamp (Grade: 1, $4). We also have one of these mailed from Tuvalu in 2016, with stamp and full postmark (Grade: 1, $7).

Code: 34600176
Price: $4.00
NZ Long-tailed Cuckoo (Tuvalu)
Scientific name: Eudynamis taitensis, on an unused card designed to replicate a stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 34600177
Price: $4.00
Seasonal greetings from Macao Post
Mailed for the 2016 season with Portuguese/Chinese pre-printed official postage imprimatur, and an address label. Grade: 4

Code: 34600178
Price: $0.50
Merry Christmas from Hongkong Post 2016
Mailed for the 2016 season with Hongkong Post English-language pre-printed official postage, and an address label. Grade: 4

Code: 34600179
Price: $0.50
San Jose, Correos (Post Office) (Costa Rica)
Linen card from earlier than 1949, because that’s when a message was written on the back. The card was not postally used, however. Grade: 4

Code: 34600180
Price: $3.00
2016 Philatelic Week (PR China)
We ask you to look back to our entry #20307825 (for PR China) and the few that follow, showing a 2015 series of unused cards–blank on the reverse–commemorating specific anniversaries, events, or notable dates. Each card had pre-printed postage on the front. So now we have a similar series from 2016, each with an individual reference number as well as the series number, which in this case is JP 218. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 34600181
Price: $1.00
Stamp Post Card – Stamps of the XV Pacific Games (2015) (Papua New Guinea)
Unused and official Post PNG card whose somewhat more expensive price reflects the K6.20 pre-paid postage printed on the back. (Some irony there.) Grade: 1

Code: 34600182
Price: $7.00
Vence – Post et Vielle Fontaine (France)
Among Vence postcards, an imposing sight, mailed in 1905 (we believe), aged appropriately, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34600183
Price: $12.00
Providence, Rhode Island (USA) – multiple views
We’re thinking if you live in, or come from, Providence, you might want this. Not postally used, it has a message totally covering the reverse, from very long ago. The scenes are all identified, and may be too small to make out in the scan, so we will identify them for you: City Hall and Soldiers Monument; State Capitol; New Armory; Brown University; Central Fire Station; New Post Office; State Normal School; St. Francis Xaviers Convent; Westminster St.; Roger Williams Park; and St. Peter’s and Paul’s Cathedral. That’s a lot for one postcard. Grade: 4

Code: 34600184
Price: $4.00
50 Centimes (Costa Rica)
To make it clear, this is a postcard and not a stamp. Mailed in 2005 with one pre-printed stamp, one nicely large postage meter label, and a large blue postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34600185
Price: $3.00
The 150th Anniversary of Stamp Issuance in Hong Kong
Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 47, a single card with pre-printed airmail postage, and mailed in 2018. Full philatelic postmark from a now-closed post office. Grade: 1

Code: 34600186
Price: $3.00
1997 Handover of Hong Kong to PR China – First-Day Covers (PR China)
To make it completely clear right now: these are not actual first-day covers, but one postcard showing two of them from this 1997 event. The postcard itself was mailed from Shenzhen in 2019, with stamp and clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34600187
Price: $5.00
Post Office, Gulfport, Mississippi (USA)
Unused old Mississippi postcard, with a rambling caption that covers the territory in a distinctive way. E.C. Kropp card 5621N, gentle aging. Grade: 1

Code: 34600188
Price: $2.00
Post Office, Laurel (Mississippi, USA)
Unused old E.C. Kropp card 30846 (9). Though unused, there can hardly be a more representative example of post office postcards than this one. Grade: 1

Code: 34600189
Price: $3.00
Harry Potter, Knight Bus (England)
A card for many theme categories! Issued by Royal Mail in October 2018, this was mailed from the U.K. in 2021 with two large stamps and postmark — altogether a superb combination of elements for any contemporary postcard. The caption on the reverse provides significant and specific information about Wizarding World and other things. Grade: 1

Code: 34600190
Price: $6.00
Russian stamps
Though we have been resisting entering PostalShop cards, this one seemed nice and ticks a lot of boxes, mailed in 2013 from Russia with three different stamps, postmark, and Par Avion “chop”.

Code: 34600191
Price: $3.00
Posta Romana, 155 Anniversary (Romania)
How quaint of Posta Romana to issue its own special card for their 155th anniversary in 2017. There seem to have been 5000 of these printed. Too bad they all don’t have (the other) GPS trackers. Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 34600192
Price: $3.00
Christmas (Sri Lanka)
Unused, official card with pre-printed postage on the back mirroring the design of the stamp on the front. Grade: 1

Code: 34600193
Price: $4.00
Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau Headquarters’ Building
This is a card as sturdy as the old (1929) building itself, located in the heart of Macau’s tourist area. You wouldn’t know that from the photo that makes the stucture look isolated. The official card has a trilingual (Chinese/Portuguese/French) postage-paid imprint and some historical details in Chinese/Portuguese/English on the reverse. What we’re saying is: this is the ultimate unused Post Office postcard. Grade 1

Code: 34600194
Price: $7.00
Jesselton, Post Office (Sabah, East Malaysia)
An old, unused, real-photo postcard with no caption. So we asked our good friend who knows Sabah well, and he confirmed this is (was) the old post office in Jesselton, now Kota Kinabalu. Grade: 1

Code: 34600195T
Price: $4.00
35ª Exposição Internacional Asiática de Filatelia (Maximum Card) (Macau)
A single card, BPL 231 from 2018, issued by CTT and distinctively using a coloured postage meter label as the stamp. So that’s unusual. The graphic is Macau’s old (and main) post office building. Grade: 1

Code: 34600196
Price: $5.00
Praisaneeyakarn, First Post Office Building (Bangkok)
An official (unused) card issued by Thailand Post in 2009, and having been inside this building we can say it is somehow more imposing than the card makes it look. (It would have been perfect as an old railroad station.) Grade: 1

Code: 34600197
Price: $3.00
Bangkok, General Post Office (Thailand)
On this unused card from Thailand Post, the bilingual Thai/English caption says “General Post Office photographed after the World War II in 1946”. Although this postcard is indeed several years old, it’s not as old as that. Grade: 1

Code: 34600198
Price: $3.00
Bangkok, Praisaneeyakarn, the first Post Office Building
Two of these sepia-styled cards are available, issued by Thailand Post in Thai year 2552 (2009), both unused but each with a flaw. One is OK on the front but has remnants of a dried rubber band sticking to the back (Grade: 4, $2). The other is OK on the back but a part of the clear lamination at the bottom front is beginning to peel (Grade: 3, $2).

Code: 34600199
Price: $2.00
Bangkok, Post Office (B) (Thailand)
See our adjoining entry (A). It’s not the same drawing! Grade: 1

Code: 34600200
Price: $3.00
Bangkok, Post Office (A) (Thailand)
We know this is Bangkok’s original (and main) post office building because we got the 5-1/8″ x 7″ unused card there, but apart from a massive bar code on the reverse — and attribution to Thailand Post — there is no other specific identification. This would have a somewhat specialised appeal to collectors of post office postcards. Grade: 1

Code: 34600201
Price: $3.00
Hongkong Post Headquarters (set of 5)
Hongkong Post celebrates itself in this set of five postal-themed cards showing old and new artwork, issued in 2023. We have two unused sets available, in their original Cello-wrap: one of just the five cards (Grade: 1, $9) and another of five maximum cards as appears in our scan (Grade: 1, $16).

Code: 34600202
Price: $9.00
Manila, Taft Avenue (Philippines)
The view (according to the caption) includes City Hall and the General Post Office. The card, however, was mailed from Hong Kong (not Philippines) in 1961, with two different stamps and a blue air mail sticker. Grade: 3

Code: 34600203T
Price: $4.00
Posta Romana 2024 EFIRO Exhibition (Romania)
This official, one-of-a-kind card from the World Specialized Philatelic Exhibition, held in Bucharest in 2024, had pre-printed postal authority. It bears the postmark and two different “chops” from the exhibit. It appears to have been intended for domestic Romanian use, but made it out of the country anyway — something of a miracle where Posta Romana is concerned. Grade: 1

Code: 34600204
Price: $8.00
Ilfov, Voluntari Post Office (Romania)
Unused apart from two inked chops on the reverse commemorating a philatelic event. Exceptionally, we do not downgrade the card because of these. Grade: 1

Code: 34600205
Price: $3.00
Hongkong Post, Postal Gallery
Another innocent postcard needing a longer description. Hongkong Post organised a series of tours of its Central Mail Facility in Kowloon Bay. Only 30 people could join each tour, and they did this for a month. At the end of each visit, they gave these postcards to participants. The catch was: it was a different postcard for each week, so if you wanted the other cards for the other weeks, in theory you needed to do the same tour three more times. We chose not to do that, so this card represents Week 2. We have one completely unused, and another with rubber-stamped “chops” on the reverse signifying our obligatory visit to the Postal Gallery. Grades: 1

Code: 34600206
Price: $9.00

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