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The interest
which justifies my attachment for the stamp, is to commemorate
people, events, and objects, which escape (of course) from the
usual official emissions.
The post office is the only organization authorized to issue
stamps, but each one can propose a subject, which is due to him
in heart. It can be for an area, a city, an event, a landscape...
to have our own stamp is a consecration. For one person, the law
authorizes to do it only on a purely posthumous basis.
It is forbidden
to represent on a stamp somebody still alive.
What you would
say, while going to seek your mail, if instead of the official
Marianne stamp there is... Eddie the Ead or Wayne & Garth (the
crazy guys of Wayne's World)? This happened to some of my
recipients with whom I had posted a letter with a stamp not
really in conformity since it was completely unique and false!
According to the
post office, the stamps must be located imperatively at the right
top of the envelope. But nothing prohibits to stick elsewhere on
the envelop one or more labels (we will speak about false stamps
only if these labels indicate a money value)
But when the post-office
employees realize the trickery, which is extremely rare (unless
they quite simply close their eyes), they make you pay the sum
which should have been discharged with an additional tax.
The false stamps presented on this site arrived at the right place with the official plug, making them natural and even truer than the original.
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