OXFAM Canada Stamp Programme

Mail & eMail Bid Sale #10 ended on 26 June 2009.
Thank you for your bids and donations!

Oxfam Mail Bid Sale #10: Overview Welcome to the Oxfam Stamp Programme Prices realized for: Collections and covers Stamps and Lots Post cards,Canada Post Products, Cancels and Miscellaneous Oxfam Canada Stamps and Covers Price List and Order Form News
Mail & eMail Bid Sale #10 ended on 26 June 2009.	Thank you for your bids and donations!

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About OXFAM-Canada's Stamp Program:

For over 25 years, OXFAM-Canada has been raising funds for overseas projects from its volunteer stamp program, primarily from Mail Order Sales and Stamp Shows. In 2006 we celebrated the fact that we had passed the $200,000 mark in total funds raised, and our program now brings in about $10,000 a year. However, it is a very labour intensive operation. Our most popular product is a kilo of stamps on paper. It takes a box of envelopes the size of a television set and many hours of work to produce just one kilo, but in the process we find a lot of interesting covers and cancellations.

The Stamp Programme is run entirely by volunteers, which means that all the money from this sale will go to self-help projects in the Third World, except for about $150 in expenses for producing and mailing this catalogue. We depend entirely on donations - primarily of modern material from companies, organizations and individuals - so we are rescuing and recycling material that would otherwise be lost to the philatelic world. Occasionally we receive a donation of older material from an estate or a collector's duplicates. We issue tax receipts for donations of philatelic material with an expected retail value more than $100 (we set a minimum to ensure it is worthwhile for us to catalogue and appraise the material). This type of sale is an opportunity to give wide visibility to unusual or "one of a kind" material that we have received.