I was just in Costa Rica and purchased some postcards and stamps. Of course, the stamps were peel and stick adhesive. The stamps were rectangular in shape, but the center had a circular perforation. Was I supposed to just use the centre part? It made it a little difficult to put on the postcard.
These are not stamps. They are computer generated "variable rate" postal labels. All of the Costa Rican post offices have these. They can print off whatever denomination they need. You will not find them listed in Scott.
The circular slits in the middle are to protect from reuse, making it difficult to peel one off whole and place it on another envelope.
David
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I must admit that these are nicer than the stamps I have seen printed from machines before. Obviously the photos are printed and just the values are added at the post office, but I like the idea.
These are the ones similar to the normal "stamps" sold by the post offices ( as opposed to tobacconists) in Spain. They are enthusiastically collected there, and just like stamps there are definitives and commemoratives. Also sometimes collected by "machine number".
While not strictly stamps, they are more like stamps than the Frama type of former days. I think that it is only a matter of time before the major catalogues have to accept the realities of modern postage and list these. There are websites devoted to these - Google "ATM stamps".
Just one point - on no account try to soak these - the Spanish ones at least fall apart- even worse than self-adhesives.