Stamp on advertising

Although Australia Post has previously vandalised its customers' envelopes by advertising Coca Cola and Ford Motors on its postmarks, it has consistently produced high quality artistic postage stamps depicting Australian flora and fauna and heritage symbols.

Now commercial advertising appears on the actual postage stamps.

Consumers who buy and use these stamps become involuntary distributors to a captive audience of junk mail advertising a foreign shipping company.

Australia Post is a government monopoly providing the essential public service of communication that should not be polluted by commercials.

It should stamp on advertising - not advertise on stamps.

John Collins, Woy Woy