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Spain postal activities (including postby.me tourist operator)

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 Hi.  This is following on from a post I made recently about postal experiments and covers I sent during my trip to Gibraltar this year.  Here I will follow on with covers I got from the time I spent in Spain.  Unfortunately I was not able to send anything with Post&Go stamps, as none of the offices (including a very big one in central Malaga) did not have a kiosk.  I'm not showing all covers, just the more interesting ones.   Postby.me Postby.me is a tourist-oriented postal operator similar to UniversalMail in the UK. However, it accepts envelopes, not just postcards, and from what I've read attatching multiple stamps could even get it to deliver larger items; I did not test this, and I'm not sure how one would post this considering the mailboxes I saw had very thin slots for inserting letters.   Regular postbyme stamp sent from regular postbyme green postbox.             Interestingly it has aquired an inkj...

Gibraltar Postal activities

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 Hi.  During October, I took a trip to Spain and Gibraltar, from where I sent a number of covers to myself as postal experiments and more.  I also planned a few things which I wasn't able to complete: Gibraltar postal order - I forgot :) Post & Go Gibraltar -  kiosk no longer present at central post office, no time to check parcel PO SSK Large Letter 100g+ label - same as P&G  Sending from Gibraltar with a Spanish stamp  Spain ATM stamp (post&go) - kiosk not present at offices I visited Phonecards Gibraltar - forgot, but no sign of being available Gibraltar payphone usage - payphones present, but those which I tried did not work :/  Swiss post tourist operaror Gibraltar - seemingly no longer present In case anyone ever wonders and searches the internet for ages like I did , apart from the seemingly now collectors-only Post & Go stamps, there is also no counter-printed ATM labels in Gibraltar, like UK horizon labels. At least in my exper...