What Is a Deposit Stamp?

In order to facilitate the postal purchasers to purchase the newly issued and newly arrived stamps in time, the postage stamps operating agencies, trading companies, and companies have adopted a postal purchase service method, and the service targets are mostly foreign letter purchasers. As early as the time of the China Post, the postal department had a "deposit purchase policy" and a "deposit purchase philatelic stamp method". At that time, such services were: Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hankou, Changsha, Peiping (Beijing ), Tianjin, Kaifeng, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Chongqing, Kunming, Guiyang, and other postal administrations. In 1955, when the China Philatelic Company was established, remittance correspondence purchases (sporadic correspondence purchases) were opened for foreign buyers. Pre-purchase deposits (long-term reservations for account opening) are two convenient ways for philatelists to purchase mail. Deposit reservers are numbered, and the company will send them in batches according to the type of reservation booked by the company. If the balance of the deposit is not allocated to the ticket once, you need to replenish the reservation. ^[1]