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I just checked a little further and discovered the were an optional part of the obviously very busy NZ post office and let him run with his stores from 2001 until 2012, when they converted it back to the NZ PO again.
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As a spin-off from my regular NZ collection, I also collect the stamps issued by the various independent mail operators that emerged after the mail deregulation of 1998. One of these, and in a way a pioneer, was Pete's Post. this company was active as a mail company until 2012, when it was bought by and incorporated in NZM (New Zealand Mail), which is not the same as NZ Post (the original state owned postal service).
I find it very difficult to find reliable information about stamps issued by any NZ independent mail company, whether Pete's Post, NZM or DX Mail (and I am sure there are others than these larger ones. When I look at Colnect, there are 6,281 items listed for NZM, 483 for Pete's Post and another 575 for DX Mail. That's a discouraging amount...
As a result, I only add these stamps to my collection whenever I come across one. I do not actively look for them.
Here is what I have, just two pages.
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Jan-Simon,
I should have just sent you the message, since you seem to collect "everything", lol. I hope your wife is very understanding about your hobby and the space it must take up.
I like your start on Pete's Post collection already! I also hope he finangled a good buy-out when they discontinued his services, plus any of the others that were also helping the postal system.
Good luck with your Pete's Post collection!
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Oh, not at all. My collection is actually rather limited, collecting everything is the last thing I would want to do. All together it is "just" two and a half bookshelf of 1 metre wide, plus the same amount for the trade books.
A friend of mine, who is a pensioner and has no relatives besides his wife is someone who does collect the world. He has stored it in about 700 32-page Leuchtturm stockbooks. I have visited his hobby room and it is overwhelming...
As a matter of fact, most of these private post stamps from NZ came from a little collection I managed to get hold of some time ago. Since then I only added a few loose stamps. One does not see these that often, I suppose they are dismissed or even tossed away by many collectors.
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I knew someone once who collected everything. I met him in 1972 just after my wife and I started collecting stamps. He had a whole book case filled with stamp albums and I remember asking Herb what he collected. He said World stamps from the beginning to the present. I wonder, if someone were doing that now, how many albums they would have and how many book cases they would have.
I remember reading recently about a very rich person who did this and needed a secretary to keep it organized. I collect quite a few areas and countries, all with cut off dates, and only have 17 albums and 10 stock books.
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Jansimon,
Wow, just the 700 albums cost him a small fortune, but you need to get friendly with him and have him will you his stamp collection and the house to house it in!
Harvey,
I have less albums than you, but several stockbooks and boxes loaded with material I haven't even seen in years and trying to clear out some of this lot. Our church group at the stamp club is going to receive a lot of it, not because I'm a nice guy, but will get a tax write-off for most of it. Also, a couple of close friends are benefitting from all this work I am doing to clear out so many years of hoarding them.
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It had never really occurred to me to count how many albums and stockbooks housed my collections... I was shocked to find I was up to 33 now. 
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Oh My I must be a hoarder. LOL
I only need 2 things. MORE money and a secretary to keep it organized.
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I found a pair of stamps still mounted on a small card, "Photo supplied by Dale White" and the words, "Pete's Post" and "Hawkes Bay" being the only messages on the stamp. I checked and they are from NZ's North Island and just wondered if anyone collects them or has even heard of them?
I just checked a little further and discovered the were an optional part of the obviously very busy NZ post office and let him run with his stores from 2001 until 2012, when they converted it back to the NZ PO again.
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As a spin-off from my regular NZ collection, I also collect the stamps issued by the various independent mail operators that emerged after the mail deregulation of 1998. One of these, and in a way a pioneer, was Pete's Post. this company was active as a mail company until 2012, when it was bought by and incorporated in NZM (New Zealand Mail), which is not the same as NZ Post (the original state owned postal service).
I find it very difficult to find reliable information about stamps issued by any NZ independent mail company, whether Pete's Post, NZM or DX Mail (and I am sure there are others than these larger ones. When I look at Colnect, there are 6,281 items listed for NZM, 483 for Pete's Post and another 575 for DX Mail. That's a discouraging amount...
As a result, I only add these stamps to my collection whenever I come across one. I do not actively look for them.
Here is what I have, just two pages.
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Jan-Simon,
I should have just sent you the message, since you seem to collect "everything", lol. I hope your wife is very understanding about your hobby and the space it must take up.
I like your start on Pete's Post collection already! I also hope he finangled a good buy-out when they discontinued his services, plus any of the others that were also helping the postal system.
Good luck with your Pete's Post collection!
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Oh, not at all. My collection is actually rather limited, collecting everything is the last thing I would want to do. All together it is "just" two and a half bookshelf of 1 metre wide, plus the same amount for the trade books.
A friend of mine, who is a pensioner and has no relatives besides his wife is someone who does collect the world. He has stored it in about 700 32-page Leuchtturm stockbooks. I have visited his hobby room and it is overwhelming...
As a matter of fact, most of these private post stamps from NZ came from a little collection I managed to get hold of some time ago. Since then I only added a few loose stamps. One does not see these that often, I suppose they are dismissed or even tossed away by many collectors.
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I knew someone once who collected everything. I met him in 1972 just after my wife and I started collecting stamps. He had a whole book case filled with stamp albums and I remember asking Herb what he collected. He said World stamps from the beginning to the present. I wonder, if someone were doing that now, how many albums they would have and how many book cases they would have.
I remember reading recently about a very rich person who did this and needed a secretary to keep it organized. I collect quite a few areas and countries, all with cut off dates, and only have 17 albums and 10 stock books.
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Jansimon,
Wow, just the 700 albums cost him a small fortune, but you need to get friendly with him and have him will you his stamp collection and the house to house it in!
Harvey,
I have less albums than you, but several stockbooks and boxes loaded with material I haven't even seen in years and trying to clear out some of this lot. Our church group at the stamp club is going to receive a lot of it, not because I'm a nice guy, but will get a tax write-off for most of it. Also, a couple of close friends are benefitting from all this work I am doing to clear out so many years of hoarding them.
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It had never really occurred to me to count how many albums and stockbooks housed my collections... I was shocked to find I was up to 33 now.
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Oh My I must be a hoarder. LOL I only need 2 things. MORE money and a secretary to keep it organized.
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