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Found in my mailbox:



I enclosed an IRC. I think I should have sent two.

The rate for registered overseas letters is 7 South Sudan pounds; the rate for ordinary overseas letters is 4 South Sudan pounds.

Note: The above information was taken from the South Sudan letter.

Postal address:
Directorate of Postal Services
P.O. Box 33
Juba, Southern Sudan

Best wishes,
AndrewG

Where can one find a South Sudan stamp/cover?

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Hello HalfpennyYellow,

I wrote a letter to:

Directorate of Postal Services
P.O. Box 33
Juba, Southern Sudan

The directorate is the part of the South Sudan government that is responsible for issuing stamps. Send them 2 International Reply Coupons, and they will send you their list of available stamps. If they still have any stamps, they may use several of their stamps when replying to you. You may have to wait!

You can get the International Reply Coupons at your post office.

Best wishes and good luck,
AndrewG

wow that is just nice.

Thank you AngrewG

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So did you 'pay' for the stamps you buy using IRC? Or are the only stamps you have those on cover? Are stamps or only price lists enclosed inside. Very curious. Thanks

Hi srgboy,

I sent an IRC for the price list only. There is a 2 1/2 South Sudan Pound issue that was not listed in the price list. I don't know whether this value was used for postage or for speculation.

I sent a second request with two IRCs. I would like to know whether to send IRCs or USD or ? as payment for South Sudan's stamps. The list made no mention of payment.

I will post a picture of the cover and their reply to the question about payment, should I receive it.

Best wishes,
AndrewG

Is it necessary to include 2 IRCs?

I heard that South Sudan first issue 2v printed in China...it was gift to South Sudan from China ....I know sounds funny...

Does anyone knows anything about it ?

http://www.china-daily.org/China-News/C ... s-100-000/

just like Timor Leste's first set was an Australian gift, Sudan's was from China. I believe Sudan (before split) has a pretty close relationship with china

Hi srgboy

Thanks for the info & related URL.

Because of the activities of the Sudanese government in Darfur, Western companies doing business in Sudan were politically pressured to cease operations there.

There was a Canadian oil company for instance that was big there, and when they announced they would pull out, CNOOC (Chinese National Overseas Oil Company), the state-owned firm which handles the international side of China's petroleum dealings, had no such qualms about doing business there and happily stepped in to take over.

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Just a note to anyone sending a letter to South Sudan Directorate of Postal Services:

I sent two IRCs a few days after agondocz replied with the address (from 5 to 10 January) and I still didn't receive anything. So don't be disappointed if you send them the IRCs and they don't reply.

IF I get receive a cover from South Sudan, I will post a pic here.

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I had sent two IRCs in November and never got any answer

I sent 2 Registered letters and 4 airmail to different Post offices ( not only Juba )all with cash $ .... about 120 $ in total and I got absolutely nothing in return ..................... and it was July 2011 !

The 2.50 SSP
stamp looks like it was printed but NOT ISSUED because of problems with its design ......... This it is not an official new.
mauriziolaos

I've heard of that but what was the problem? seeing this coat of arm though make me think they've got the coat of arms wrong haha

srgboy, the image of the coat of arms of South Sudan that you have shared above is the correct one. However, the 2.5 SSP mid-value that was withdrawn from the set of 3 stamps had the following errors in the coat of arms image on it:

The Eagle was facing to the right instead of to the left as in the image above.
Also, the error stamp doesn't carry one spear and one spade as it is in the above image but carries two spears (and no spade)

This was a genuine printing error that occurred on the side of the Beijing Security Printers. Some of these stamps on the commemorative covers as well as a few singles as usual has escaped into the market. The complete set of 3 stamps has become much sought after due to this and I've heard that a set of 3 goes for anything above $300 in the market currently...

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Take a look at the error stamp!

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Hello Safi and srgboy,

I appreciate the explanation and pictures.

Thanks,
AndrewG

Good morning.

FYI, the South Sudan Philatelic Society is about to publish its first Newsletter.

We are also open to accept new membership (which, for the time-being is free).

Please send a message of interested to:

bill.barclay%wfp.org (change the % to (at)) and include the following in the subject line: "SSPS Membership Application"

Thanks

Looks like a new set has appeared on the market:



Cheers,
mauriziolaos

Hi mauriziolaos and billy_whiz,

Thanks for the picture of the new issues and for the information about the newsletter.

I hope that interested collectors will have better luck finding this set.

Best wishes,
AndrewG

Dear mauriziolaos
I am a bit sceptical about the authenticity of the 2 stamps that you have shown as being a new set. While the quality is good, and the themes are not unreasonable, I have found no evidence that they are officially sanctioned. In fact, I have shown them to the Director of Postal Services in Juba and he denies that they are genuine.

In any event, I doubt that they are a ‘set’. Note that the font on each stamp is different, which would probably not be the case if they were in fact a set. The subject matters are also unrelated.

I have a theory. I believe these are a type of ‘Proof’ that has been prepared by the Chinese Printing company that prepared the first set of stamps for RSS. Someone in the company has leaked these samples. Just a theory.

However, the 2 stamps mauriziolaos shows have a 2012 micro-date at left. The 3 issued stamps came out in 2011.

So, if they're proofs,
a) what's coming on the market are more akin to reprints, with updated date
or
b) the first stamps weren't intended to be released until 2012 (but then what would the country do in the interim? )

Or maybe they're just fakes. But a maker of "illegals" would add birds or elephants (or worse, Madonna and Elvis) to appeal to thematic collectors.

They do have the look of being 'unaccepted designs'. Choosing the issued 3.5 value over this one is a good move, the President looks too "hee-ha cowboy" with that hat. Just because the country is an oil-state, they don't need to dress like Texan oilcats.

Quick work establishing a study group for S.S., billy_whiz. Hopefully the country soon gives you more postal history and such to study.

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What are International Reply Coupons?? Sorry Im new to collecting and dont know alot P

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China, Taiwan, North Korea, Middle East... Or any new stamp that catches my eye.
and Collecting Fish, Birds, Large animals (ex: Elephants,OX,panda)

International Reply Coupons allow you to exchange the coupon in return for postage to an overseas destination.



If you receive a coupon from abroad, just take it to the Post Office and exchange you will receive postage from Post office. International Reply Coupons make it so much easier for you to keep in touch with friends and family in foreign lands.

Its quite big field ...lots of collector of International Reply Coupon ( IRC )..There are some catalogue has been published

Here is two images ...first one SPECIMEN


Second old type

Thanks

So if i wanted stamps from south sudan i would buy some IRC's and send to the address that was posted up earlier in the post?

Thanks

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and Collecting Fish, Birds, Large animals (ex: Elephants,OX,panda)

You can, but many (including me) have tried it and didn't recieve anything

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YEI post office re-opened (reported in the media July 26, 2012)
My Google search of "post Office" news brought in this item today that might be of interest to collectors of this part of the world.

The South Sudanese Minister for Telecommunication and Postal Services Madut Biar Yel who presided over the re-opening said that the post office will greatly improve communication through such services as money order transfers, savings, parcels deposit and delivery, general mail, express mail, stamp sales and other services.

Commissioner of Yei River County Juma David congratulated the people of Yei and the National Ministry of Telecommunication and Postal Services for the re-opening of the post office.

He urged citizens and the business communities to utilise the services offered by the post office.

An official from the Central Equatoria State Ministry of Telecommunication and Postal Services Faraj Juma Zaeid, who represented the State Minister of Information and Communication, said that the Ministry will open post offices in all the counties in the state.

Zaeid added that there will be branches at the payams so as to ease communication and services delivery to the people in the State.

Yei River County has one of most developed communication infrastructure in South Sudan.

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