Sunday, June 10, 2007

Personal stamps


The Norwegian postal services allow you to design your own personal stamps, both for private customers and for firms, for use inside Norway, or even as postage for letters to other countries.
http://www.posten.no/personlige

As a private person you can send your favorite photo by email to the postal service. Within a week you will receive a sheet with 20 stamps to be used for letters weighing 20 grams or less, inside Norway. For other countries, you will have to add postage to your letter.
This costs 230 Norwegian crowns plus an additional 19 Norwegian crowns for the shipping.
Roughly that is a little less than 42 US dollars for the whole deal.
I don't write many letters these days, particularly not to Norwegian addresses, but I think this could be a good idea for my mother's upcoming birthday - she loves to send letters.

As for firms and businesses, the postal services call the personal stamps the smallest ad space of 24 mm X 32 mm.
Perhaps for introducing a new product or service?
Perhaps for showing a new logo?
For firms you have to order at least five sheets, each with 20 stamps. The price is the same as for private clients, so it will cost you less than 200 US dollars to get your 100 stamps to be sent inside Norway on letters weighing 20 grams or less.
Sounds like a good deal to me.

Photos are of course subject to copyrights and to the consent of those on a photograph. In addition, the postal services can deny printing stamps where they feel the subject matter is inappropriate.

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