What's the difference between a souvenir sheet and an original stamp?

The difference between souvenir sheet and original stamp is as follows:

1 has different meanings.

Souvenir sheet is a stamp specially printed for stamp collectors, while yuan stamp is a unified stamp for most people.

2. Different designs

A souvenir sheet is a set of stamps printed on a small piece of paper, which has a wide margin and is printed with titles, words and related patterns. Tearing apart the stamps in the souvenir sheet is a set of original stamps.

3. Different cycles.

Because the souvenir sheet is specially made for stamp collectors, the circulation is not much. Relatively speaking, the circulation of original stamps will be more.

The function of souvenir sheet

Souvenir sheets are postage certificates first, followed by philatelic products. However, in recent years, the souvenir sheet issued in China has been "qualitatively" obsolete, rarely used for mailing, and most of it is still in the hands of stamp collectors. In the design of souvenir sheets, the postal department also pays too much attention to centralized collection and ignores the applicability of other postal services.

There are two main reasons why souvenir sheets are seldom used: first, they are not suitable and easy to use; Second, postal users lack the awareness of using and cherishing postal services. The root cause is that the souvenir sheet itself has "problems". For example, the price is too high, the premium is too high, and the postal service is not cost-effective.

For example, Gulangyu souvenir sheet with a total face value of 3.6 yuan is issued at the price of 5.4 yuan. Anyone who posts can only admit that he voted for 3.6 yuan, and other 1.8 yuan "contributed" in vain. Originally, there were not many souvenir sheets and small investment letters, and no one deliberately wasted the premium issue.