A personalized stamp is a postage stamp where a picture or photograph can be added to the stamp by a member of the public, or some non-governmental entity.

The Austrian Postal Service Canada Post ^* have permitted personalization of postage stamps.

The United Nations Australia Post Royal Mail [http://www.royalmail.com/" target="_blank" >^* have permitted personalization of labels adjoining their stamps.

Stamps.com provides United States Postal Service-approved personalized postage via PhotoStamps. [http://photo.stamps.com/

Although most postal regulations permit the exclusion of "objectionable" pictures on the stamps, The Smoking Gun in its investigation managed to create American postage stamps featuring the Rosenbergs, Jimmy Hoffa, Ted Kaczynski, Monica Lewinsky's dress, Slobodan Milošević and Nicolae Ceauşescu. ^*

Within a few weeks of the article detailing this abuse, PhotoStamps revised its policies, and as of September 2004 the company no longer accepted images that included adults or teenagers. They have since allowed these images again, under more stringent terms of service. ^*

Postage stamps

Timbre personnalisé