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(c) Freparation of Presentation Packs Such racks consist of
a cardboard mount in which the stamps of a particular issue may be inserted and then placed in a clear 'cellophane' envelope. A description of the issue may be inserted giving also background information about the country itself. It is not usual to make more than a working profit from the sale of such packs since they are a useful way of increasing sales of the stamps to tourists off a cruise ship, for example. Separate packs of 'definitives' could be similarly prepared and where necessary these could be reduced into three sections having a low denomination pack, as well as one for medium and another for high value stamps. Another type of pack could be the "Year Pack" which would enclose all the stamps of the territory issued in a particular calendar year. This practice is convenient for a collector of mint stamps who wishes to ensure his collection is complete without having to follow the progress of projected issues throughout the year, apart from reducing the postage costs involved in taking up each issue.
(a)Stamp Booklets Some postal administrations put up small
selections of stamps into booklets, usually sold at the cost of the stamps themselves if bought at the counter or in Post Office vending machines. The extra cost of making the booklets is met by selling advertising space in the pages of the booklet which may also include information about the main rostal rates. A fairly new feature is the preparation of booklets containing 4 stamps of a commemorative issue. These also are of interest tocollectors.
(e) Miniature sheets, souvenir sheets.or mini-sheets These are
frowned upon by more "uritanical collectors who onsider · that rhilately should be devoted to stamps etc. which are used in the ordinary course of mailing activity.
Such sheets contain fewer stamps that those used in normal trade and the borders may be decorated with extra designsor rictures relevant to the issue. These sheets find favour with the mass or amateur collector.
(f)'Postage Due' Labels
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may be sold at a Philatelic Bureau or
at the Head Office of the Postal Administration.
6. exhibitions
Sales of a country's stamps may be promoted by its representation at philatelic exhibitions and where a country's philatelic business is handled by an agency that agency may also undertake to represent the country, along with others, at the exhibition. The biggest and best exhibition is the "International Philatelic" which is held in a different capital
each year 1978 will see it staged in Canada, The next one
in London will be in 1980.
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