Israel Stamp Reviews

#newblogpost #בולים 🔗 stampreviews.blogspot.com/2021/10/commen… "Sadly, I no longer collect Israeli stamps" was a painful report to write. It's partly a tale of despair and partly a rant, but definitely something I've been needing to get off my chest. 🔗 stampreviews.blogspot.com/2021/10/commen…

@Lee_flaneur Outstanding photography

King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff. #PostboxSaturday

@stampden @ptsandstampex Brilliant work

My display for Stampex 2026 just grew by 4 pages. I was unhappy with what was essentially a collection of biographies, so I reworked it using prosopographical analysis to map networks and change over time. Now it reads as Social Philately, not life stories. #philately

#newblogpost #philately #italy "piXPost is a digital travel companion with whom we are encouraged to share our philatelic travel experiences, and it in turn is the portal through which other philatelic travelers are sharing their experiences with us." ⤵️ stampreviews.blogspot.com/2026/02/commen…

Here is how the same location appears today: the left box is completely gone, with only a red outline indicating where it once was, and the right box has only some rocks and cement where it used to be. What used to be the post office is now for rent.

#postboxsaturday #Jerusalem Live from Emek Refaim corner of HaMelitz: the left mailbox was formally yellow, has what looks like a small sinkhole at its base, and a message scrawled on it with a permanent marker indicates it has been decommissioned.

@Stamps_Denmark Impressive work!

Alright, the work of going through all the pages from the beginning has started. Gonna ensure every Israel stamp is place correct. Found 3 of the old coin stamps woth perfs I did not have. There was also the 10 shekel with wrong tab description. #philately #stampcollecting

Seen this afternoon on my visit to Shaare Zedek Hospital in #Jerusalem for #hernia pre-op, this picture of a 1978 Israel Post stamp is part of a historical timeline display that greets visitors upon entering

@sfrantzman Contact me next year, you missed an exciting scouts parade through new gate yesterday. There will be an even bigger one for Orthodox Christmas next month on the 18th I believe, but I'll be out of the country.

I've lived in Jerusalem for almost two decades and never seen major Christmas celebrations here; which actually always surprised me because I thought the holiday season here would have more Christmas events; I've never been to Damascus but this seems like a strange use of Christmas messaging. I did go to Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity once on Christmas eve and i was nice; I went to Nazareth once and it was kind of modest. I've tried to find Christmas events in the Old City on Christmas eve and bee surprised by how toned down it is. I'd be interested to see actual photos of Christmas events in Jerusalem. I went to the small YMCA Christmas market, it was nice, but not like what I've seen in Dubai or Istanbul or other places. I don't understand the decision to try to make Damascus seem bad and single out Syria. It's as if Syria is now the main enemy of Israel and Christmas is part of this? I don't get it. Seems like it might be better not to have religious holidays be part of this dispute, which I don't even understand why this is a dispute between Jerusalem and Damascus?

Did you know that Austrian Post launched the world's first postcard service on 1 October 1869? #postcards #didyouknow

#postboxsaturday #vienna day 3 Live from Praterstraße corner of Nestroyplatz, a rare example of a mostly clean mailbox

@ExploringStamps Outstanding work. When I use the app (Android), the very bottom is always obscured by the navigation buttons.

We did our first update 🙌 If you have iOS, please update your app now, Android is pending Google approval. Some fun new features, including “favoriting” accounts.. & we cleaned up all the pin crowding at higher zoom levels. Didn’t expect 3 thousand posts already, wow! #pixpost

@lotuseaters_com My issue finally arrived today. #jerusalem

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@ExploringStamps #masterpiece

#xtremephilately collab with Michelangelo

#postboxsaturday #england day 2 Live from the corner of Tothill Street and Storey's Gate, a golden Royal Mail mailbox

@NPhilatelics @sebphilatelie To get there one has to pass a Russian border checkpoint; they and not Moldova determine who can enter and leave the territory. The Moldovan leu is not accepted anywhere as a valid currency, except money changers. So whatever sovereignty Moldova actually has there, it is minimal.

@Stamps_Israel @sebphilatelie That’s because Transnistria is de jure part of Moldova and they provide the postal service nor Russia. And I’m not sure it IS de facto Russian territory just because the Russian army was/is there.

#postboxsaturday #transnistria Greetings from Tiraspol, where earlier today I mailed postcards from the city's main post office. Transnistria is a de-facto Russian territory and uses its own currency, but the stamps they sold me for the postcards were Moldovan.

#postboxsaturday part 2 Live from the old post office in #Chernivtsi, which featured on a 2014 stamp of Ukrposhta

Forgot the city: Chernivtsi / Czernowitz

#postboxsaturday #Ukraine day 4, part 1 Live from the corner of Olha Kobylyans'ka St. and Tsentral'na Sq.

@philatelyreview #Suceava, not far from that town, is where I'll be spending the next couple nights to see the UNESCO monasteries.

#Romania, 1879 postal card from Brăila to Galați. My maternal grandfather was a Frankel from #Botoșani and I’m always looking out for letters and cards from or (as in this case) to Frankels, Franchels, Frenkels and Frankls…

#postboxsaturday part 3 Mailbox outside the post office near the Cluj train station

#postboxsaturday part 2 The Steampunk Museum

#postboxsaturday #romania day 12 Cluj-Napoca main post office