Definitive Stamps are postage stamps, specifically issued to meet the day-to-day postage needs and are made available for sale for a period till stocks of a particular series last, which shall be printed and reprinted in different denominations as per the requirement of the post office.
Commemorative Stamps are postage stamps issued to commemorate an event, institution, theme and personages, which shall be printed only once, in limited numbers. These stamps are only available at Philatelic Bureau and counters or under the Philatelic Deposit Account Scheme. An event which is not nationally important enough to be commemorated by issue of a Commemorative/Special stamp
Any citizen of India may give proposal for issue of commemorative stamps to Dept of Post.
All those proposal shall be considered on the basis of administrative instruction of central Govt by Philatelic Advisory Committee.
Proposal should be related to institutions or events or organizations.
Certain amount of postage should be brought by the proponents.
No postage stamp should be issued on living personality.
Design and Denomination shall be decided by Central Govt.
Customized stamp for special occasion, special one.
This stamp contains photo of a any person(s), any logo of industries/offices/organizations.
A sheet contains 12 pieces of stamp with face value of Rs.5/- each stamp.
This will cost for Rs. 300/- per sheet & for bulk 10% discount.
Corporate rate with more than 5000 sheet has other discount.