2011 - Personalized Stamps

Pos Malaysia released new personalized stamps on April 28, 2011. For the very first time Pos Malaysia issued official first day cover on personalized stamps. The new set of personalized stamps come in four different designs, two with denomination 35s and the other two with denomination 65s. These personalized stamps are printed in a sheet containing two full stamp sets (altogether eight stamps), and they are sold at face value for this special release (a single stamp sheet is sold at RM4). For this official release of the personalized stamps, Pos Malaysia places some nice graphic images on the customized part of the personalized stamps. It looks like the printing of these special graphic images on the customized part was done together at the same time of the printing of the whole personalized stamps. In other other words, these official personalized stamps are not similar to that of the normal personalized stamps where the customerized part (portrait/personal photo) is done separately using ink-jet colour printer. I personally think that these stamps (released on April 28, 2011 printed with special graphic images) are rather special stamps than personalized stamp. It is learnt that Pos Malaysia released/issued limited copy number of this official personalized stamp sheet. However, the single stamp sheet customized with personal portraits/photos will be released later, and most likely would be sold at RM19 or RM20 per sheet.