Correos launches personalised 30 cent stamps for one euro
À la carte stamps. Spain’s online post office – www.correos.es – has just launched a new service which so far has received a great response: more than 600 orders in the first 20 days, mainly from small businesses. The new product, known as “Tu sello” (Your Stamp), allows both companies and private individuals to obtain their own personalised stamps, with images they provide themselves.
Nevertheless, not all photographs are valid. As the website explains they must not “show people, or violate morality, good habits or public order”; the photographs must respect “fundamental rights and public liberties, and not extol crime or discriminate by sex, race or religion”. Neither is illegal advertising allowed or images that breach copyright regulations.
The post office has established a minimum order of 200 stamps and a maximum of 3,000, and each stamp costs one euro. This includes the costs of postage.
The ordering process can be done entirely by internet. The first thing customers have to do is register on the Correos website; then go into the “Tu sello” section, upload the photograph to be used (in .jpg format and no bigger than 500 Kb) and select the field to declare that the user has the rights to the image. Then the user will be able to preview the stamp, edit the image and add a title or date. Finally payment can be made using a credit card, ePagado or PayPal. Then Correos will verify that the image complies with regulations.
Within a month the customer will receive the stamps, printed on eight sheets from the FNMT-Real Casa de la Moneda (the Spanish mint). The stamps have a value of 30 cents, valid for letters of up to 20 grammes sent within Spain.
