PERSONALIZED STAMPS
Personalized stamps, commonly known as the postage stamps are issued by the post office or the postal administration under the government of India or by any authorized person to buyers who pay the costs of the whole process of registering the mail.
The stamp, which is a small paper, is attached to the mail so that it can be delivered to the proper address. Then a postmark is applied on the stamp to avert any kind of reuse. Usually a rectangular piece of paper, a stamp features a denomination, a personalized image and the name of the nation.
These may or may not have the label on the left, where a picture of the buyer’s choice can be affixed. These stamps vary according to countries where one can design it with colourful papers or texts and elsewhere it is just like a normal stamp.
These stamps were first put into use on 25th of October, 2005. There are different brands in the market offering stamps of various sizes and shapes providing the customers with a lot of choices.
Procedure for a personalized stamp is given below:
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· Firstly, one needs to send out an application with a proper brochure.
· The stamp object is then selected. It should be of supreme quality with enough light to make it visible properly. Only one object can be chosen for one application.
· The customer is required to sign the application form.
· A certain amount of money is needed to pay for the stamps which can be submitted to the postal cheque account.
· Taking the receipt, the customer will then need to apply to the PTT office to validate their application forms.
· Lastly the application form is evaluated in a short time and sent to required addresses. In case of delivering to another person an authorization document is needed.
People realized that personalized stamps can use more than just as stamps. Images of missing persons, political agendas or controversial images or texts were affixed to the stamps.
Though it is banned in most countries, loopholes in the system allow these wrong doings.
