Portugal - Special Sheet Republic Busts

Portugal - Special Sheet Republic Busts:

Technical Information 

Special Sheet with 8 stamps: 5 x €0,32; 2 x €0,68 e €0,80.

Tips for Beginning Stamp Collectors - I

Collecting Stamps can be an hobby for lifetime . It's very fun and educational for all ages and it's very easy to start a collection without a big investment.

Philately is the study of stamps and postal materials and collectors are sometimes called as philatelists.

How to start collecting stamps?
You can start by saving stamps from letters, postcards and packages. There are many beginning collectors that chooses a favorite subject like animals, sports, history, art, transportation, as the theme of their collection.

What kinds of stamps are there?


There are many types of stamps (ex: commemorative, definitive, and special–and formats such as sheets, booklets, or coils). Stamps may be conventional adhesive ("lick-and-stick") or self–adhesive ("no-lick, peel-and-stick").

The Definitive stamps are the most common. Generally less than an inch square, printed in large quantities, and often more than once. Commemorative stamps are larger and more colorful than definitives, are printed in smaller quantities and typically only once. They honor events, people, or subjects of importance to American life and culture. Special stamps–Christmas and Love, Holiday Celebration, international rate, Priority Mail, and Express Mail–usually are on sale for a limited time.

Urban Public Transport - Basic Serie 2010

Urban Public Transport Urban Transport in the years 70/80
After the Second World War, with the transfer of rural populations to the cities, they settled on two current issues regarding the use of public transport (CT) and single. A defended the primacy of public transport as fast mobility of the future, including the restriction of individual transport (IT) in inner city areas. The second opted for the construction of highways and roads, pointing out the advantages (in terms of convenience, flexibility and customization) of IT on the CT and better adaptation and return the car to polynuclear cities of metropolitan areas. With the increasing rate of motorization of the big cities, the adoption of measures to manage the traffic passed through the promotion of TC, the use of priority lanes (corridors 'bus'), the signaling associated with telematics, the establishment of bus cast, the definition of criteria for the location of the spots in CT based on the origin and destination traffic flows, solutions for car parks and the establishment of parking on the outskirts of cities. As a complement, tariff measures have been adopted for the movement of IT in inner city areas. In the late 70s in Portugal there were 38 location with urban transport, highlighting Lisbon and Porto with 85% of traffic and a significant level suburban transport. The two metropolitan areas, with an ability to attract migratory very sharp, just to have exponential population growth in its suburbs (housing / dormitory) at the expense of the central areas, depopulated, and occupied by the economic activities relating to the Services, resulting in: congestion traffic, the occupation of the territory, changing the land use for residential areas increasingly distant from the centers and the establishment of commuter traffic (with peaks of traffic), requiring a drain on resources in infrastructure - facilities, equipment and vehicle fleets whose profitability becomes ineffective. In 1975, the Ministry of Labour, Transport and Communications Industry and Technology and promoted the formation of a working group to submit proposals on the diversification of working hours in large cities, as well as restricting the movement and parking of promotion of IT and CT. Subsequently, by order of Sec of State 20/07/75 Transport and Communications, was named a team of experts to assist it the work of this group, having been given a set of measures, which stood out, creating Express careers, change of schedules, availability of lanes, construction of interfaces, signaling with priority for CT acquisition of vehicles, introduction of passes, of which highlights the 'go social', and also reducing the tariff range , parking control and separation of traffic flows. For the study and implementation of appropriate measures to DGTT draw up transport plans for the regions of Lisbon and Porto. Lisbon constitutes the GEL and the Port Gepp. In both groups, counted on the support of specialized consultants in the transport sector, under a technical assistance program agreed with the Swiss Confederation. This period was also marked by strikes Cross urban transport sector and the consequent emergence of 'alternative transport'.
Gilberto Gomes

France - 150 Years Foundation of Deauville

Thanks to Cotard, Stéphane:
Cover sent from France - 150 Years Foundation of Deauville - 14-05-2010

Saint Pierre & Miquelon - 14 Ouistreham

Thanks to Cotard, Stéphane:
Cover sent from Saint Pierre & Miquelon - SPM vur par Ouistreham.

Bulgaria - Fide World Chess Championship 2010

Thanks to Hristo Rousef:
Cover sent from Bulgaria with Souvenir sheet  - Fide World Chess Championship 2010.

Israel - Honey

Thanks to Nissim Farchy:
Cover sent from Israel on 30-05-2010 with honey stamp.

Argentina - FDC Velas Sudamérica 2010

Thanks to Cernjul:
First Day Cover Velas Sudamérica 2010 - sent from Argentina on 30 May 2010. Also with two stamps on back to complete the postage costs.

France - Europa CEPT 2010 Children Books

Thanks to Nonore:
Cover sent from France with stamp Europa CEPT 2010 Children Books.

France - Parcs Naturels Régionaux de Basse-Normandie

Thanks to Cotard, Stéphane:
Cover sent from France with commemorative postamarks - Parcs Naturels Régionaux de Basse-Normandie