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Sometimes, with a view to achieving a good goal in the long term, it is necessary to color outside the lines briefly and to a limited extent. To discover the effect (and side effects). Afterwards it will be cleaned up.
There is no Development and/or Test setup for users/administrators, with separate test data. There is only one LD. It's complicated enough as it is.
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I thought that the administrators should act with full knowledge of the facts, which means that the rules of the manual should be followed. 
The administrators are expected to lead by example; not for some.
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Hmm, the dependency is overruled by the Species
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It was briefly considered a very good idea to place the years as YYYY-YYYY in the name of an Issue group, if the items from that aggregation are spread over several years. However, there are strange consequences in places where the name Issue group is used.
Normally, therefore, the idea was not stopped now.
But there are a few (2) users (including an administrator) who look further into possible consequences and whether the idea can perhaps be used after all.
That is why, unfortunately, it is sometimes necessary to have an Issue group name that is a bit mutilated and not in accordance with the agreements.
I don't think there can be any question of violating (misusing) the rules, or breaking the rules on purpose.
It'll be fine.
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That item is an FDC, and there you always have 'publisher'.
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Yes, that's the trick. (first make an FDC of it) But the more simple users are less able to deal with this. In a wiki, everyone should always be able to adjust/improve everything (unless the item has been frozen in its entirety by an administrator).

A user who wants to add a Regional Post item will simply not find it and will therefore not complete it.
Should he send a private message to a super administrator after each added item asking him to add 'Publisher'?
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Then it could be due to that trick used.
The publisher can be seen at #8156293 .
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You must first select the Use Type City and Regional Post in the entry/change form.
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I had adjusted #6786743 with the "trick", because the field is not visible. The publisher is also not shown on the item page.
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provided with a publisher
Yes, it's just a pity that no one can see that publisher in the detail or in the form.
Here too you have to apply the same tricks (as in a possible solution for KEP) to be able to fill in and/or change it. And admit it, you must have been to the LD school a little longer for that.


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See the history of 1917, 1918 and 1919 State coat of arms (II)
The name was changed by another administrator half an hour after my message and of the three years two years were made.
However, the manual is clear.
Old text:
"... For long-term series whose stamps must remain together as a series, you must complete only one year, namely the year of issue of the first stamp in the series."
New text: (NL)
"De naamgeving is: Jaartal [spatie] Naam van de Uitgifte groep. Jaartal is eerste jaar van uitgifte van de samenhangende items." 
It is not by raping the text in the manual that you point out a problem, but on the forum. 
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I don't know if we are talking about different things, but if I select all items from City and Regional Mail , almost nothing is filled in for Publisher.

We're talking about the same thing.
Then no more items will have been provided with a publisher since November last year.
#6786743 you provided with a publisher yourself on 02-12-2023 :-)

The Publisher dependency does work for the Usage Type and Type fields, but not for Countries / Territories. I haven't figured out yet why this doesn't work.
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If Kyrgyzstan really remains an exception
I wouldn't bet my money on that. The world of stamps is in flux , and the age-old model of 'one official government postal service' is in a state of dissolution. It is entirely possible that there are already areas where a second (or third) UPU recognized postal service operates.

Now I was also thinking about Stad- en Streekpost . Not to get rid of that type, but to be able to distinguish between the different organizations/firms that provide such services.

It would also be a clean solution for the personal stamps. After all, there are 2 major trends when it comes to personal stamps . The movement of the postal service itself , which also offers (thematically) personalized postage stamps on a large scale, and the 'private' movement, where you and I (based on a fixed frame of the postal service) can have perfectly postage stamps created with our girl next door or the neighbor's cat.
It is the first ones that are very popular, because you have control over them (there is a reasonable overview). Specimens from that second movement ... that is masses and masses of different ones, where no one knows approximately whether 100,000 different ones or 10,000,000 different ones were created per year.
They are all added, but no one can handle it. They are all mixed up. This way you won't get collectors of Personal stamps turned away. they don't like it at all. While the first flow with an Issue field could perfectly be separated (selected, filtered) and therefore become usable for that group.
That's why I once said 'all that crap'. If you throw it all in one heap, there is little you can do with it.

And then the Jul stamps (The Jul stamp area of Denmark already contains many more items than the Denmark stamp area). There is the ' National ', and then there is the ' National ': hundreds of organizations, cities, municipalities, intermunicipal companies, companies, ... that also throw their Jul stamps on the market every year.
To provide some structure, the 'Publisher' field would also come in handy.
It works best with a group issue, per year. But not over the years.
It is not inconceivable that someone specializes in only the Jul stamps issued by the Rotary Club. Quite a large collection area.

There may be situations that I don't immediately think of...
No, I wouldn't bet my money on it.
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I don't know if we are talking about different things, but if I select all items from City and Regional Mail , almost nothing is filled in for Publisher. And the field is also not visible on the item pages.



It's a shame that it doesn't work out for Kyrgyzstan. Is that a technical impossibility?
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The exception for city and regional mail was introduced quite some time ago, and it works well.
Unfortunately, it does not work with Country / area = Kyrgyzstan.
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Perhaps such an exception could also be considered for the City and Regional Post Use Type.
I think portbetaald would appreciate that.
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I would do it that way too.
Bee #2170227, the only question is what you enter as the year, because there are 6 stamps from 1959 and 1 from 1960. (See Details for the item.)
The pop-up screen is clear about this. The year stated for a series is the year in which the first stamps of the series were issued. In your question the year would then be 1959. The actual year of issue is then stated for the individual stamps. The hare (as a separate stamp) is therefore given the year 1960. The manual is silent on this in all languages. This also applies to the month and day added later. You might therefore wonder whether the issue date of the first issued individual stamp of the series must/may/can also be entered for the month and day of a series.
Moreover, after all changes in series and issue group, the pop-up screen must be examined critically. According to the screen, postage stamps issued later belong to 1 series with the previously issued postage stamps.
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The best solution is to make the publisher field visible, if necessary only for Kyrgyzstan for the time being.

If Kyrgyzstan really remains an exception , then I would like to give it a try.
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Apparently the stamp was still printed in 2022, but not issued until 2023. Perhaps it was even the intention to issue the stamp in 2022. I would always use the date of first issue in the year of issue. This is also stated in the pop-up screen. However, the manual does not include the year, month and day fields.
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A bit off topic, but I see that on the KEP website #9708785 was released on January 30, 2023 , although the stamp says 2022. How is such a discrepancy handled?

(By the way, I also see that they issue their own maximum cards (and FDCs). The issuer can be entered if they end up in the LD catalog.)
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PS Does anyone know the name of Kyrgyzstan's older postal service?
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The best solution is to make the publisher field visible, if necessary only for Kyrgyzstan for the time being.
That was my thought too. It is idiotic to look for workarounds in other fields, instead of using the existing Publisher field for its intended purpose.
It will not be much work to program an exception, where the Publisher field (on the input/change form) always becomes visible if the country Kyrgyzstan is selected.
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The Swiss Post solution is not okay in my opinion. They are stamps of a private postal company (where the name says 'Swiss Post') that were (are?) used in Spain. Why a separate area was created for a few dozen issued copies may be based on ignorance at the time. And why should Switzerland be so explicitly included in the name... A letter from Spain to Belgium ( #5453361 ), what does that have to do with Switzerland?
For me, these are items that fall under the Franking usage type in the country/area of Spain. In this case it only concerns foreign mail.
The tour operator takes the mail to the home country, and may deliver it to the local postal authority who will include it in the local delivery process. Swiss Post as a company (full name 'Swiss Post International Spain') had concluded the necessary contracts with the UPU for this purpose.
A service provided by holiday organizer companies, whereby in tourist overpopulated areas the cards and notes have a greater chance of reaching the recipient within a reasonable period of time.
In the normal circuit it could take a long time, and you had already told those friends or family in detail about your trip after returning home. Only then did the card arrive, with a weeks delay, with the message 'We have arrived safely'. While you had already returned safely. In that circuit, as a recipient you had a piece of mail with a real Spanish stamp on it.

Those things can be perfectly recorded within Spain and resolved with the (Series-Series-Issue-Issue group) - name. Both 10 years ago and now. So many different ones haven't appeared until now.

The phenomenon in Kirzigia is not limited. It applies to all mail: domestic and all other countries in the world that are affiliated with the UPU. For private, business and tourist purposes. In the country/area itself (domestic transport of the shipments) of course arranged by one specific company. Once outside, by all those official postal services (of the countries that are members of the UPU).

It can also be taken care of with Issue group.
In any case, a detailed explanation will be necessary. Especially more detailed than the explanation about Swiss Post (also included in the Secret Book of the Secret Club?).
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We have had a similar discussion before, I think with the issue of Swiss postage stamps in Spain. Same problem. Swiss Post pp
There is no solution at this time. You can add KEP to the issue group name as a surrogate. You then get something like 1921 KEP Vogels. We have used something similar before to bring the Cinderella stamps together better. Another alternative is to add the name KEP in the title. However, both alternatives are surrogate solutions and therefore not actually desirable. The best solution is to make the publisher field visible, if necessary only for Kyrgyzstan for the time being. But the aforementioned Swiss postage stamps indicate that this can be expanded. And, if the stamp continues to exist, I only expect further economies of scale and that the national monopolies will be abolished. During this transition, different postal services may be active in a country, making the publishing field inevitable.
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Indeed, the trick with Publisher does not completely have the desired result. You can select it in the country, but you don't see it for those items in the detail of the stamps. Adding that publisher to a stamp is also not that easy. Many users will have difficulty with this.
Always showing the field is a solution, but the advantage of 'fewer fields' for items from the main business (not the production work) then disappears again.

Printer is also not a good choice. KEP may be the client for the printing, but let specialized Secure printers do the work.

I can understand Express as a Usage Type , but it is not correct. Express has a different purpose, not to distinguish between different official postal services within a country/area (with the Use Type filter). However, these items are of the Franking usage type. Also not 'Without postage' Charles1971.

A new field is also not a good idea, you might as well always make 'Publisher' visible.

And as I already wrote: a new country/area is not a good idea.

Curious what the solution will be that will benefit the management of the catalog.
A solution may have to be chosen with disadvantages. Criticism will certainly arise. But a decision is necessary when you see an innocent usage type being abused like this (for more than a year now) ...

I shouldn't be delayed for long. For the time being there are just under 100 items, but it could quickly become more than a thousand. This official postal service has been active since 2012.

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