PO Will Reissue Stamp
By Sue Clark on Jan 9, 2008 in Updates 
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The Canadian Post Office issued a statement today, January 9, that they will be correcting the misprinted lighthouse stamp when they reissue the next printing, possibly in June. Pachena Point’s lighthouse keeper, Iain Colquhoun, was one of several people who’d spotted the error, and he called Sen. Pat Carney about it, who brought it to the Canadian PO’s attention.
The Post Office has printed 800,000 of the sets, and Jim Phillips, Director of Stamp Services, said they would be notifying the 350,000 philatelists (stamp collectors) who’d purchased the sets about the reissue. Generally, the stamps with mistakes are worth more, but due to the amount sold, there are a lot in circulation, so they won’t be worth as much, according to him
My advice? Hold on to them anyway. If people trade them in for the corrected set, then those will be destroyed and you’ll be in possession of a genuine mistake.
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