Singapore ATM Stamps

Singapore Post 's experience with ATM vending machines began in 1988 with the installation of PLVM ( Postage Label Vending Machine ) equipment manufactured by the British firm Almex ( Metric Parking Group ). The machines resembled parking meters; in fact, they were an adaptation of a standard Almex

These machines were installed in post offices and various public places, totaling 49 units ( nos. 0001 to 0048 and 0050 ) in operation from 1989.

The Almex machines operated with coins and offered 16 basic programmed postage values . They did not give change in coins but rather in other ATMs worth 5 and/or 10 cents.

These stamps feature pre-printed colorful designs, but the actual postage value is printed on-demand by the machine at the time of purchase.

Early Frama Era (1980s - 2000s)

19 Apr 1988

5 Jun 1989

5 Apr 1994

8 Sep 1990

2 Oct 1991

1 Dec 1992

5 Apr 1994

1 Apr 1995

Modern SAM Kiosk Era

As mechanical Frama setups phased out, modern touchscreen SAM (Self-Service Automated Machines) took over, printing digital thermal ink onto beautifully detailed, full-bleed design backdrops.

19 May 1997 "Sunny Singapore"

8 Nov 2000

10 Jun 2003

15 Mar 2007

22 Feb 2010 "Destination Singapore"

26 Aug 2013 "City in a Garden"

1 Jan 2017 

5 Jan 2018

Potpourri

9 Oct 2023

165 Years of Singapore Postal Service

22 Mar 2024

Otters & Singapore Skyline

Thailand : Betel Tray

 

8 Oct 2007

9 Oct 1994

Thailand 1990s New Year "Flowers"

 

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Indonesia 1993-1998 National Love Flora & Fauna Day

 

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Italy 1994-1996 Italian Food

5 Mar 1994

Bread ( Pane) 

5 Mar 1994

Pasta ( Pasta ) 

4 Mar 1995

 Rice ( Riso ) 

Rice has been grown in southern Italy for centuries. From the south, rice gradually made its way north toward northern Italy, where the marshes of the Po Valley were suitable for rice cultivation.

 

Risotto is believed to have originated around Lombardy. The first recipe identifiable as risotto dates from 1809. It includes rice sautéed in butter, sausages, bone marrow, and onions with broth with saffron gradually added.

 

There is a recipe for a dish named as a risotto in the 1854 Trattato di cucina (Treatise on Cooking) by Giovanni Vialardi, assistant chief cook to kings.

 

 

A high-starch, round, medium- or short- grain white rice is usually used for making risotto.  Such rices can absorb liquids and release starch, so they are stickier than the long grain varieties.

 

The principal varieties used in Italy are Arborio, Baldo, Carnaroli, Maratelli, Padano, Roma, and Vialone Nano.  

 

 

 

4 Mar 1995

Olive Oil ( Olio )

Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, and extracting the oil.

 

It is commonly used in cooking for frying foods or as a salad dressing. It can also be found in some cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, soaps, and fuels for traditional oil lamps. It also has additional uses in some religions. The olive is one of three core food plants in Mediterranean cuisine, together with wheat and grapes. Olive trees have been grown around the Mediterranean since the 8th millennium BC.

 

 

20 Mar 1996

Wine ( Vini )

Italian wine is produced in every region of Italy. Italy is the world's largest wine producer, as well as the country with the widest variety of indigenous grapevine in the world.

 

Vines have been cultivated from the wild Vitis vinifera grape for millennia in Italy. 

 

The origins of vine-growing and winemaking in Italy stretched back even before the Phoenician, Etruscans and Greek settlers, who produced wine in Italy before the Romans planted their own vineyards. The Romans greatly increased Italy's viticultural area using efficient viticultural and winemaking methods.