Wine post

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The Wine Post is one of the many local posts around the world that are run by private companies and not government agencies. They issue postage stamps for their own mail delivery service which can take the form of carrying their mail from the business to the nearest government postal service or by utilizing their own means of delivery locally, countrywide, or internationally. They cancel their mail with their own postmarks which are often pictorial and commemorative. So they are considered legal posts in their own right and produce regular stamp issues and commemoratives that are gummed and perforated. Many of these local posts or private posts are worth collecting because of the small numbers of issues produced each year and the low numbers of stamps printed. Some of these local posts offer special mails for collectors to participate in by preparing their own covers for mailing or by purchasing their postal stationery for the purpose. Advice to collectors is to make collections of the oldest posts, such as the Wine Post and Aland and others who are evolving into new postage areas and have very beautiful early issues, proofs, souvenir sheets, covers and so on.