Hello from Slovenia

krepki,

Glad you decided to take my advice and become a member here. I truly believe you will enjoy yourself here and will become friends with many of our members. Once you reach 50 posts, the marketplace will open up and then you will be able to start trading and giving away your mass duplication of stamps. So have a look around, post where/when you can and you will reach that 50 post in no time.

Kris

Now for the formal introduction.....

Welcome to Stamp Bears. We are glad that you decided to join us. If you have any questions please ask one of our great members, or send a pm to one of our staff members. Our Admin/Moderator team are here to help you.

Make sure to read our forum rules and make yourself familiar with them. Once you reach 50 post, the marketplace opens up, and you can start trading with other members.

Oh, our members here love to see other members collections. Once you settle in, don't hesitate to show some scans of your collection. There are many threads already started. If you cant find a thread to post your scans, start a new one.

Again, thanks for joining and look forward to your participation.

Welcome, krepki! You and I just completed a trade on 100stamps as well. I hope you were able to find something to fill in holes in your collection.

Hello, and let me add another welcome to this forum . I just joined 100stamps.club last week.


I remember from my Postcrossing days that Slovene Postcrossers often apologized that they had to use the "same old stamps" because the special issues were so hard to get. It's a shame; Slovenia seems like a really nice place (I was in Slovenska Bistrica once on a very brief business trip; that was back in 1982, I think) and the stamps are certainly excellent. I don't know why the postal service there doesn't encourage letter-writers to "show off" a bit.

Thank you for all your welcomes... I will try to be an active user, but as you all know... work, work, work
Problem of slovene post is in our smallness - we are country of 2 milion and because of that the demand on stamps is pretty low. they print small ammounts of each issue.
When they are out they are easy to get, but in really small numbers. Once I needed 6 copies of CEPT issue and on my post they had only 4 stamps left (on issue day!)
besides that, the problem is in personel - they use (for packages and other sendings) higher denominated commemoratives, to have less work. The worker admited, that sooner they run out of stock the better is for them, because sales statistic is better for their bosses!! so they use it (sending costs 1€, they use 1,26 commemorative and people dont mind paying more, because they dont know, that sending costed just 1€)
and collectors are mad!

I guess you understand the difference between USA quantities and ours
(if you have Michel catalogue, check issues quantities - it is funny number)

krepki, welcome to our great stamp website. I look forward to your participation in our threads and seeing some scans of your collection.
Mike

Welcome!😉

Hello and welcome from Wales.