Hi!

I am not surprised that very few collectors are familiar with the personalized stamps in general, those from USA in particular, and those from Zazzle, especially.

Many of the postal associates from USA have no clue about them, because it's such a relatively new and rare category.

Have a look at some examples in my store, whith print runs as little as 20 stamps.
Thank you!

Dorin

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Austria has personalized stamps for Years, you can have a stamp issued as little as 200. The interesting part is that there are a lot of buyers out there, especially for used personalized stamps. They sell in average for Euro 4.00, not bad for a Euro O.55 mint stamp

Thanks, Keyman!

I only ordered a sheet of 20 stamps, so far. Since I did not release the design into the public gallery, nobody else in the world can sell it or buy it. Except from me.

Austria Post has issued at least 43 different stamps, I've read, about Euro 2008, since January.

Do you think it issued only 20 of each?

Yes, Austria Post physically printed the Final Game sheet and started to sell it in their Vienna shop 2 hours and 5 minutes after the game. World record. Customers were lined up outside.

But I have posted online my first design a few minutes after the game.

I offered it for sale at delcampe.com before Austria Post did it. In less than 2 hours. At 22:55:15, Austria Time, to be precise; and Austria Post started selling theirs at 00:41 Austria Time.

From Austria Post:

<<The sheet was shown in our Online-Shop at about 23:30 at the day of the final game.

Best regards

Elisabeth Terk
Österreichische Post AG
Philatelie
Sammler-Service
Steinheilgasse 1
A-1210 Wien
Tel: +43 (0) 57767 95095
Fax: +43 (0) 57767 95195

E-Mail: sammler-service@post.at>>


My time zone (ET) is 6 hours behind Austria. I have all the electronic date-stamped documents to prove all the above.


I am not soliciting anybody here to buy; I am just proving a point, if I may:
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Hmm...interesting experiment.

I learned a few lessons.