Talk:Independent State of Aramoana

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Is there any information on the philately of this "country" outside of the pics of the stamps on the article page? --Daniel C. Boyer 17:47, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Not yet, but I have all 3 stamp issues in my collection and plan to eventually make them available here. --Gene_poole 02:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I was a postal clerk in Dunedin when these stamps came out. We were supposed to surcharge letters bearing them, though a number of us didn't. There was a story that the stamps caused a minor storm quite apart from the political issue they represented. Apparently New Zealand stamps at the time were designed and/or printed in Spain, and here was someone producing far superior stamps locally, so why were we going offshore for our artists?

Infamous quote from our mayor at the time, Jim Barnes: "Yellow-eyed penguins don't vote for me." Copey 2 13:34, 2 November 2006 (UTC)