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New Contest, Fair Recap, Culture: the First Stamp,...
Newsletter 06/06/2013
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Thu, 6 Jun 2013
Dear members,
This week, we give you some information about the payments that were recently blocked by PayPal.
We also invite you to participate in our new contest that will allow you to win a Penny Black from 1840, the first stamp in the world!
We also propose to you a brief return to the Briefmarken Messe Fair that took place last May in Essen (Germany).
Finally, make a leap into the past with our cultural section and discover the history of an item that has revolutionized the world of communications.
Your Delcampe Team
 PAYPAL /
At the beginning of May, PayPal froze payments for items including the name of the countries subject to U.S. embargo (Cuba, Iran, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Zimbabwe). PayPal being a U.S. company, they had to apply restrictions.
We were not notified of these by the company. But the numerous testimonies of members allowed us to be quickly aware of the situation. We immediately contacted the PayPal company in order to learn more about this.
They told us that this was the application of a new measure. The overall principle is that the sale of goods cannot bring money to countries under embargo, because in this case they are automatically blocked. This blocking is but only temporary when the names of countries in question are only included in the title of the item and the sale does not bring any money to countries under embargo. This is the case for the vast majority of collectibles sold on our site.
Delcampe being a company based in Europe, we do not apply these restrictions. But the sellers accepting and using PayPal are required to comply with this new measure.
If you need help, we kindly invite you to contact PayPal support.
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NEW DELCAMPE CONTEST/ Try your luck
Participate in the Contest and win a Penny Black from 1840.
The Penny Black is considered the very first stamp in the history of philately. Try your luck and win a celebrity in the universe of world philately!
In order to win this stamp whose value is estimated at more than 150 GBP, you simply have to answer two questions.
Participation in the contest is free for all Delcampe members.
Want to know more about the history of the Penny Black? Plunge yourself in our Culture section below!
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ESSEN FAIR/
From 2 to 4 May 2013 took place the Briefmarken Messe Fair in Essen, Germany. We thank you for coming to visit us.
We had the pleasure to meet many passionate philatelists. We have also had the confirmation that Delcampe is recognized and highly appreciated in the world of German Philately. We hope to see you again next year... in an even greater number!
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 CULTURE / The first stamp...
The stamp is at the same time a necessary object for our postal communications, and a very coveted collectible as well. Did you know that it will soon be celebrating its 175th anniversary?
The first appearance of the postage stamp dates back to 1840 and it is English! It is the Penny Black which revolutionized the world of communications.
Before 1840, it was up to the addressee to pay for the cost of transportation of the mail addressed to him/ her. The price was often very high. The latter being adapted in function of the weight and the distance traveled. Often the recipient could not afford the expense and thus rejected the fold.
The Briton Rowland Hill became aware of the negative effects of this system for both the public and the incomes of the postal services. In 1837, he suggested to create labels to stick on the envelopes, so that the postal charge is paid at the outset and not on arrival. He proposed a base price of 1 penny, about 50 times less than the current rates!
It took 3 years for this postal reform to take place due to the opposition of the postal administration, who only saw the shortfall.
The reform finally came into force on 6 May 1840. The first stamp was issued by the British Royal Mail the same year as a portrait of HM Queen Victoria at age 15.
Worth 1 penny and of black color, it is called Penny Black. The success is immediate in the UK and then spread around the world.
The first countries to have issued postage stamps after this were the Swiss cantons and Brazil in 1843, then the United States and Mauritius in 1847. Followed France, Belgium and Germany in 1849 and Canada in 1851.
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PRESTIGE/
Do you know the Delcampe Prestige website? This site contains the catalogues of the most prestigious auction houses. Click here to discover how it works.
We will close our newsletter by useful information for our bidder members! The Prestige auction houses now have the possibility to choose to accept or not the modifications of offers by the bidders as well as the offer withdrawals. Consequently, for certain catalogues, bidders will not be able to modify or withdraw their offer. They will then have to get in contact directly with the auction house.
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