Latest PRC Philatelic News
Updated: July 7, 2008
No particular surprises in the 2009 Scott Catalogue PRC listings. They did modify the numbers for the seven value set previously spanning #2198~2207. The set is now listed as #2198-2204 with no numbers for #2205-7. Also we had the wrong first day of issue for the New Year Special issue which was on Nov. 1, not Nov. 11 for 2007. This means rearranging a few Scott numbers for that issue and the following one. All of the PRC 2007 catalogue numbers have now been assigned by Scott as indicated on the price list.
Another surprise is a new PRC semi-postal stamp issued for donations to earthquake relief. Attached to the basic 120 fen stamp is a non-postally valid 1 yuan label. The customer pays 220 fen for the stamp which is good for 120 fen of postage. On their previous ten semi-postal stamps there was only a stamp with no label and the donation added to the denomination with a plus sign.
As the Olympic games commence one can speculate that many of the visitors to Beijing will be snapping up souvenirs to bring home, probably including philatelic items. What effect, if any, this will have on the various PRC Olympic issues on the market remains to be seen.
We recently decided to revise the terms of sale for our album supplement pages. Basically the shipping cost will be the same on orders under $50. We have removed the $1.75 shipping/handling charge (supplements only) and added that amount to the previous postage charge of $3. This means you need to add $4.75 for shipping to all supplement orders. This allows us to send them priority mail which is a much easier packaging job at our end, and gets it there much quicker than media mail.
We still have a few of the Mianzhu Woodprint New Year silk sheetlets which are offered on the unified supplement list (#3565c). When they are gone that will be the end of them from us unless we would get some low ball offer we could not pass up in the future.
We still have four of the scarce Yang listed PRC money order stamps and still can't find a good place to put them on our online price lists, so, for the time being , they will remain here. We have MO6 at $20, MO7 at $20, MO11 at $10, and MO14 at $40.
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