2009 Custom Advertising (CALs) / Personalised Postage Labels

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		Cat.	Mint Unhinged	Fine Used
50c	Orange Scooter	683aa	$1.35
50c	What Now? Red Robot on Red, Yellow and Blue Vertical Background	683ab	$1.35
50c	Te Akau Racing Stables - Portrait Orientation	683ac	$1.35
50c	Te Akau Racing Stables - Landscape Orientation	683ad	$1.35
$1	Mowbray Collectables - HMS Vanguard Cancelled Royal Visit Stamp	683ae	$2.70
50c	Kadine Stamps - 80 Years of Health Stamps - 1929 Health	683af	$1.35
50c	88.3 Blockhouse Bay Radio / Penny the Cat (Lighter)	683ag	$1.35
50c	88.3 Blockhouse Bay Radio / Penny the Cat (Darker)	683ah	$1.35
$1	88.3 Blockhouse Bay Radio / Panterra the Cat (Blue Background)	683ai	$2.70
$2	88.3 Blockhouse Bay Radio / Shadow the Cat (Darker)	683aj	$5.40
$2.50	88.3 Blockhouse Bay Radio / Shadow the Cat (Lighter)	683ak	$6.75
50c	Real Aotearoa (White Text on Black Background)	683al	$1.35
50c	Palmpex 2010 Stamp Show / Locomotive	683am	$1.35
50c	Timpex 2009 National Stamp Exhibition / Richard Pearse Memorial Monumen	683an	$1.35
50c	Timpex 2009 National Stamp Exhibition / Phar Lap Sculpture by Joanne Sullivan - Gessler	683ao	$1.35
50c	Timpex 2009 National Stamp Exhibition / Model T Railway Car (Pleasant Point Museum and Railway)	683ap	$1.35
50c	HVPS Red Letterbox	683aq	$1.35
50c	Sunset Painting by Hanley Wright, Kaiapoi	683ar	$1.35
$1	White Chair and Pohutukawa Tree by Felix Wang	683as	$2.70
50c	The Kaiapoi Advocate / The Talk of the Town	683at	$1.35
$1	The Akaroa Mail (Since 1876)	683au	$2.70
50c	Evashred Panther (Industrial Shredding Machines)	683av	$1.35
50c	Araon Korean Icebreaker (Aerial View)	683aw	$1.35
50c	Araon Korean Icebreaker in Pack Ice	683ax	$1.35
50c	Revolution / Spray Painted Heart Logo	683ay	$1.35
50c	150th anniversary (1860 - 2010) of the 4th Otago Southland Battalion Group	683az	$1.35
50c	Love Paper / Spicers Paper (Purple Background)	683ba	$1.35
50c	Fifty Years (1959 - 2009) New Zealand Antique and Historical Arms Association	683bb	$1.35
50c	Auckland A-Z / Auckland Tourism	683bc	$1.35
50c	Ballet Shoes En Pointe / 2009	683bd	$1.35
50c	60th Anniversary of the Ambury Shield Interclub Competition / 1949 - 2009	683be	$1.35
50c	Castlepoint Racing Club Clerk of the Course on Castlepoint Beach with Castlepoint Lighthouse Behind	683bf	$1.35
50c	Adopt an Animal / Animal Re-Homing	683bg	$1.35
$1	Adopt an Animal / Animal Re-Homing	683bh	$2.70
50c	Under 19 Men's World Basketball Championship / Auckland 2 - 12 July 2009	683bi	$1.35
50c	Pioneer Basketball Club	683bj	$1.35
50c	Joe and Lucy's Engagement / 1st August 2009 Rio de Janeiro	683bk	$1.35
50c	Fletcher 100 Years Since 1909	683bl	$1.35
50c	Merry Christmas 2009	683bm	$1.35

50c	Sri Lankaramaya Auckland New Zealand 10th Anniversary 1999 - 2009 (Self Adhesive)	683bn	$1.35
50c	Flashlit Boy in Darkened Landscape (Self Adhesive)	683bo	$1.35
50c	North Canterbury Chess (Self Adhesive)	683bp	$1.35
50c	Pink Volkswagon (Self Adhesive)	683bq	$1.35
50c	Pavlova Radio - Radio New Zealand Sounds Like Us (Self Adhesive)	683br	$1.35
50c	Caravan - Radio New Zealand Sounds Like Us (Self Adhesive)	683bs	$1.35
$1	Tartan Radio - Radio New Zealand Sounds Like Us (Self Adhesive)	683bt	$2.70
$1.50	Embroidered Bag - Radio New Zealand Sounds Like Us (Self Adhesive)	683bu	$4.05
$2	Rugby All Blacks - Radio New Zealand Sounds Like Us (Self Adhesive)	683bv	$5.40
50c	What Now? Red Robot on Blue Spiral Background (Self Adhesive)	683bw	$1.35
50c	What Now? Red Robot on Red, Yellow and Blue Vertical Background (Self Adhesive)	683bx	$1.35
50c	NSP - Not Only Pizza - Non Solo Pizza (Self Adhesive)	683by	$1.35
50c	Horse Jumping (Self Adhesive)	683bz	$1.35
50c	Kaiapoi 2009 Youth Stamp Camp (Self Adhesive)	683ca	$1.35
50c	Black and White Wedding Photo (Self Adhesive)	683cb	$1.35
50c	Bride and Groom Magazine (Self Adhesive)	683cc	$1.35
50c	Kiwi Stamp Circuit (Self Adhesive)	683cd	$1.35
50c	Simes Real Estate Agents (Self Adhesive)	683ce	$1.35
50c	REIMAX Real Estate Agents (Self Adhesive)	683cf	$1.35
50c	Coastlands Celebrating 40 Years 1969 - 2009 (Self Adhesive)	683cg	$1.35
50c	Coaching Edge (Self Adhesive)	683ch	$1.35
50c	Chatham Islands Robin (Self Adhesive)	683ci	$1.35
50c	Leading Edge Foundation - Koru Fern (Self Adhesive)	683cj	$1.35
50c	Sheep Painting by P. M. Otto (Self Adhesive)	683ck	$1.35
50c	New Zealand Coastline Art Work (Self Adhesive)	683cl	$1.35
50c	Belle Property - Red Poppies (Self Adhesive)	683cm	$1.35
50c	Sexplorations - Coaching, Education and Therapy (Self Adhesive)	683cn	$1.35
50c	Coachouse - Mentoring, Career Guidance (Self Adhesive)	683co	$1.35
50c	Poderi Crisci Vineyard Coat of Arms (Self Adhesive)	683cp	$1.35
50c	Pier Law - Lawyers (Self Adhesive)	683cq	$1.35
50c	Farmers - Celebrating 100 Years 1909 - 2009 (Self Adhesive)	683cr	$1.35
50c	Kapiti Island Art Work (Self Adhesive)	683cs	$1.35
50c	Trees at Paekakariki Art Work (Self Adhesive)	683ct	$1.35
50c	JA Class Locomotive at Paekakariki (Self Adhesive)	683cu	$1.35
50c	Strawberry Sound (Self Adhesive)	683cv	$1.35
$1	I Want You for Medrecruit (Self Adhesive)	683cw	$2.70
50c	Coffee News / News to Amuse (Self Adhesive)	683cx	$1.35
50c	Home of the Paekakariki Express / Railway Signal Box (Self Adhesive)	683cy	$1.35
50c	Quakers 1909 / First General Meeting Aotearoa New Zealand (Self Adhesive)	683cz	$1.35
50c	Real Aotearoa (Black Text on White Background) (Self Adhesive)	683da	$1.35
50c	Palmpex 2010 Stamp Show / Locomotive (Self Adhesive)	683db	$1.35
50c	Timpex 2009 National Stamp Exhibition / Richard Pearse Memorial Monumen (Self Adhesive)	683dc	$1.35
50c	Sunset Painting by Hanley Wright, Kaiapoi (Self Adhesive)	683dd	$1.35
50c	Antarctic Expedition Cruise Ship "Bremen" in Tepid Waters (Self Adhesive)	683de	$1.35
50c	Antarctic Expedition Cruise Ship "Bremen" in Ice (Self Adhesive)	683df	$1.35

	Set of 85	683dg	$132.10

	Maui - Celebrating 30 Years of New Zealand Gas - Booklet of ten 50 cent Self Adhesive Stamps	683dh	$13.50

Some controversy surrounds the omission of the Tibetan flag stamps which were produced for an Auckland group, the "Friends of Tibet (NZ) Society" but subsequently deliberately covered by New Zealand Post with airmail stickers when noticed on mail. The stamps were not made available for purchase from New Zealand Post by stamp collectors.

The New Zealand Post terms and agreements for personalised postage state that they will refuse to print any image at their discretion, if the image may be offensive to any ethnic group, contain any political message or could be associated with a current or former political cause or leader. In the past New Zealand Post have refused to print stamps for a standing member of New Zealand's Parliament during an election citing this rule.

New Zealand Post printed 5,000 of the 50c and 1,000 of the $1 denominations. The stamps feature the flag of Tibet, also known as the snow lion flag, which was introduced by the 13th Dalai Lama using the design motif of Japanese military flags. The flag continued to be used after the incorporation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China. The Tibetan government at the time stressed that the flag was an army flag and not a national flag.

In 1959, The Dalai Lama together with a group of Tibetan leaders and followers fled to India and set up the Government of Tibet in Exile. They retained the flag and it's usage was banned in the People's Republic of China. The flag is now also used as a symbol of the Tibetan independence movement. Tibet has not received foreign diplomatic recognition as an independent state and in 1945 China's sovereignty over Tibet was not questioned by the United Nations.

Below the flag on the stamp is a black panel containing the dates "1959 - 2009". At the time of printing, New Zealand Post employees were most probably not aware that the dates commemorated the "50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupation". After receipt of the stamps, however, the Tibetan Society over-printed text in blue on the selvedges of the sheets of stamps - with a website URL down both sides, a heading along the top, and a three-line political inscription alleging "illegal Chinese occupation" at the bottom.

A New Zealand Post spokesman explained that printing the stamps had been a mistake as the stamps breached their terms and conditions and that the act of covering the stamps was deliberate. New Zealand Post tried to get the stamps returned for destruction and have stated they would not do a reprint of the stamp.

Bibliography

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume X

Edited by B.G. Vincent FRPSNZ

Published 2013 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated (ISBN 978-0-9876534-3-7)

Pages 739 - 746

New Zealand Customised Advertising Labels (CALs) 2004 - 2010

By Bernard Styris

Pages 8 - 12, 17 - 18, 27 - 31, 37 - 38

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