Scouting Zutphen

Here a set of personalized stamps about scouting. When I was a bit(!!) younger I also was a scout. Nice time. Here you see special stamps of scoutingclub St. Joris Zutphen, 75 years young in 2009.

Also a personalized stamp of Lord Baden Powel who started the scouting in 1907.

Nice to have these. I think this is the way to use the possibility for having personalized stamps.

How to save on postal costs.....

This sheet of stamp I bought to mail a packet to my daughter. She and her husband are expecting a baby next month and my wife did make some things we mailed to them. How does it works ? For one pack you can use a special non stamp thing to pay the cost. You have to pay € 6,25 for postal rate. I did use this Scoutingsheet (5x 2 different stamps) total € 7,20.

Now I alway's get my stamps back from family(so alway's use good stamps....) so these also came back. I put this item on EBAY just to see what happens. After 7 day's it was sold for € 9,00 ........!!??? Very nice for me because free shipment and also a small profit on the stamps...

to come

Will wait and see if there come some reaction on my scouting article....

Scouting 100 years

The Dutch postadministration did issue this year again "Europa" stamps. Not every yeay they do that but this year we in the world have the cellebration of 100 years of scouting and that's also the theme for the Europa stamps of 2007. In our country we have only stamps for use in Europe (value € 0,72) till 20 grams and Priority. (Standard you need for this € 0,67 stamps).
We won't see these stamps on regular Dutch internal mail, so if you want it in an used version you have to get friends in Europe or you have to mail yourself a letter with this stamps. I only do that with our local cancellation. Always nice and collectable....If you send me a cover with an Europa scouting stamp I will return one with a Dutch one...