Visited the only Post Office in Capetown which sold special stamps. I think the rest just have stickets now. These stamps are newly issued. This card took 4 months to get here !
This was the old Post Office when I was here 20 years ago. No longer in use, but a fine building .
I mailed this in the small Post Office in the town. I forget the stamps I had purchased in Belgrade, but nice to see the Post Office here had some special stamps.
The Post office is very large . It is not often that the old buildings are still in use. The Philatelic shop was just up the road and the people there were very helpful. Lots of options on stamps . East European countries tend to have the best for Philatelic departments in Europe. Sadly the Nordic Countries ( Not Finland ) tend to be more difficult finding Post offices and Philatelic supplies.
I had visited the Post Office in Kingstown and purchased a lot of stamps. These ones show the parrots .
The Post office also sold stamps for some of the islands. Years ago it was handled by a separate company but now back with the Post Office.
Featuring a Europa stamp from 2018. The Post Office had a full selection of stamps and was a bit different in memory since last time. But very helpful and a nice pictorial postmark to go to .
The Post office in the city of Baikonur is the Russian Post office . They had special space stamps available for sale . They also had special cachets that you could get stamped on the postcard. It was a dream come true to visit this area and Post office for a long time . It well exceeded my expectations.
The stamp is showing one of the rocket launches from Baikonur which is about 3 hours drive from here. The post office itself did not think these were valid stamps and had to take photos of them and send them off to head office . In fact they would not let me send the postcards as they said they only did parcel and registered post. So I had to put my postcards inside the registered envelope to send back. First time . Though I do remember on my early days of travel in some ex Soviet coutry they said the same but they agreed in the end to let me send the postcards out. So first time this has happened. Below is a pic of the famous envelope that they got sent it.
I was disappointed to see that there was no selection of stamps at the main Post Office. There was an old philatelic shop but closed down. I guess all the philatelic orders are dealt with in Astana . Just a standard set of definitive stamps.
These stamps show some of the stencils in the Main Post Office in Prague . This card was mailed at the Post office in the Castle . Again very helpful staff and a special handstamp in blue. Interesting all the postcards are handstamped.
