Some of you guys know I'm a long time philatelist and specialize in Canadian mint. Anyway, I noticed I got charged for an item from Canada Post. I have standing orders with Canada Post, so maybe it's something I overlooked, I thought to myself. I double checked the list of newly released products and nothing matched the price tag of the items.
Long story short, I just received an unannounced limited edition uncut press sheet of the recently released, Leonard Cohen commemorative stamps. The uncut press sheet is limited to 2000 copies and even stamp dealers are unaware of it. I have a standing order with Canada Post for specific items. Uncut press sheets being one of them. Sold out, of course, because standing order customers get first crack. The press sheet is in a black, vinyl record, album jacket. How cool is that? Anyway, it was a very pleasant surprise.
BTW, if any of you people are interested in a very cool collection of stamps depicting all the gates of chinatown in Canada, there is a special album that is on Canada Post's website. What's cool is, there's a souvenir sheet in the collection that is only available in that collection. Only 8888 copies were produced and it was thought to be long sold out (it's been quite a while since it was released). Anyway, the souvenir sheet from the collection is imperforate, unlike the field stock, which is a dime a dozen and worth next to nothing. Along with the stamps, the bilingual booklet/album, you get a genuine 200 year old, Qing Dynasty coin (probably worth nothing, but cool nonetheless).
https://www.canadapost.ca/shop/colle...execution=e1s1
Collectors pay full catalog prices for the souvenir sheet alone ($190). Yeah, dumb, right?
Anyway, I have multiple copies of it already. If you're interested, just order it before it's really sold out.