Special stamps

Special stamps proliferate in stamp programs
By Rick Miller
Broadly speaking, regular postage stamps can be divided into three categories: definitives, commemoratives and special stamps.

Special stamps are the extra stamps the post office prints each year. The Love stamps and the Christmas stamps are special stamps.

Special stamps: Non-regular stamps issued on special occasions.
Specimen: Material which is used to identify philatelic material which is approved by the government.
Speculative issue: A stamp issued solely for collective purposes.

Special Stamps: Regular postage stamp issues that fall outside the traditional definitions of commemorative and definitive stamps.

Special stamps
Special stamps are ones that fit into none of the other categories(!) They aren't quite definitives, they're not commemoratives, and they are not service-specific stamps.

Special stamps
Holiday stamps are postage stamps that are made during special occasions every year. Examples of these stamps are Love stamps during Valentines and the Christmas stamps every Yuletide season.
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Special stamps, such as the Christmas stamps issued annually by various countries, are sometimes regarded as definitives because they are not commemoratives, ...

Special stamps for payment of parcel post fees.
Part-Perforate:
A stamp imperforate on one or more sides, but with at least one side perforated.

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23-1945: special stamps issued under Japanese occupation, 1944: stamps issued for government of Nanking, 1994: stamps surcharged for North China.
Nanumaga: one of the Tuvalu islands, issued stamps starting in 1984; see Tuvalu-Nanumaga.

Our Post Office does take cognizance of these affairs by issuing special stamps to commemorate the event. Proceeds from the sale of these, goes to the Post Office. The sale of these has run to a total as high as one million dollars on occasion.

Postage due stamps are special stamps applied by a post office to mail with insufficient postage.
Revenue stamps - stamps issued to pay taxes.

The so-called straight postage stamp, in addition to its use for regular mail, will carry a letter as well via airmail, or by special delivery, or parcel post, even though special stamps may have been produced for these purposes.

PARCEL POST STAMP: Special stamps issued for use only on parcels weighing more than 16 ounces. Cat. Designation: "Q"
PASTE-UP PAIR: A pair of coil stamps which shows the joint where two sheets were pasted together.

Parcel Post Stamps: Special stamps for payment of parcel post fees.
Part-Perforate: A stamp imperforate on one or more sides, but with at least one side perforated.

Greetings Stamps Special stamps conveying Christmas, New Year or Birthday Greetings.

you should first find out if its a bunch of fun stamps that you can go crazy with, or if it includes some stamps that are very valuable. You will have to ask for some help to find that out. When you know for sure that there are some special stamps, ...

Talk to your parents, relations and friends about their stamp collections. You'll learn about the sorts of stamps they collect, why they collect them and how they find special stamps for their collections.

See also: Stamp, Special stamp, Used, Cover, Local