NZ has special issue stamps - however the big design at the moment is not at all Christmassy. Guess what it is? :)
NZ also has a huge thing for calendars, probably because so much of the country is clearly designed to be picture-postcard-and-calendar pretty. Also because about 22% of the population is foreign-born, so likely have friends and family overseas. It's normal to buy calendars over here complete with envelope designed for sending overseas, with weights and dimensions clearly printed on them. Quite to my surprise, I recently saw that you can buy calendars from other places over here -want one of Venice? or New York? No problem!
Something else I find strange over here on the subject (sort of) of calendars, but more particularly diaries: in the UK you can buy them for several varieties of 'year', ie the calendar year Jan-Dec, the fiscal year Apr-Mar and the university year, which I think ran Jul-Jun. In NZ, I've only seen the Jan-Dec version.
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Date: 2012-11-29 09:35 pm (UTC)NZ also has a huge thing for calendars, probably because so much of the country is clearly designed to be picture-postcard-and-calendar pretty. Also because about 22% of the population is foreign-born, so likely have friends and family overseas. It's normal to buy calendars over here complete with envelope designed for sending overseas, with weights and dimensions clearly printed on them. Quite to my surprise, I recently saw that you can buy calendars from other places over here -want one of Venice? or New York? No problem!
Something else I find strange over here on the subject (sort of) of calendars, but more particularly diaries: in the UK you can buy them for several varieties of 'year', ie the calendar year Jan-Dec, the fiscal year Apr-Mar and the university year, which I think ran Jul-Jun. In NZ, I've only seen the Jan-Dec version.