Cyprus: Airmail and Express labels

These are the labels currently used. They both come in sheets of 36 labels.

Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.                Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.
              

The express labels were really hard to get a nice scan of. The bright red in the labels kinda overtook everything in the scan. As you can see the black text looks very faint. It doesn't look like that in real life.

Lithuania: Older labels

Some older labels from Lithuania. They come on a roll.

Year: 1994, Self-Adhesive.
LIT-A-8

United Arab Emirates: Airmail labels

These were sent to me from the United Arab Emirates. I never seen these labels on letters before, but I'm assuming they are the current ones as they are self-adhesive. They are from a pad, with strips of 12 labels.

Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.

South Africa: Airmail labels

These labels come on a pad, with 10 labels on a strip. I'm not sure how many are on a pad as mine is not complete, but I think it is 100. The design is current.

Year: ?, Gummed.


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Lithuania: priority labels

This is the design currently used in Lithuania. They come on a roll.

Received in 2010.

Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.

Cook Islands: Older Airmail label

This is an older airmail label from Cook Islands. The label is from the island Rarotonga, which according to Wikipedia is the most populous island.

Year: 1987?, Self-Adhesive.


Nowadays the Cook Islands doesn't have their own airmail label, instead they use the same ones as New Zealand.

Switzerland: Priority labels

I recently traded with someone over at postcrossing and they sent me some different labels from Switzerland. :)

Year: 2006, Gummed.           Year: 2008, Gummed.
     

They are both from pads and come in strips of 10 labels.
This last label is from a stamp booklet.

Year: 2008?, Self-Adhesive.

Croatia: Airmail labels

I got these labels from Croatia this month. These were sent by the postal service in Croatia. At the same time someone else were kind enough to send me some too, but they were totally different and also said priority.

Received december 2010.

Id number on sheet: P-26

Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.

Serbia: Airmail labels

My first labels from Serbia. They a part of a much bigger sheet.
I don't know if you can see it from my scan but the top labels are much lighter in color then the others on the sheet.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Slovenia: Airmail labels

Someone over at postcrossing, kindly sent me labels from both Slovenia and Serbia. Thank you :)

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.


These labels come from a roll.

New Zealand: Older labels

Some older labels from New Zealand. I'm not sure what year they are from, but I thinking somewhere in the 1970's. They are all part of bigger sheets.

Year: ?, Gummed.


Year: ?, Gummed.


Then we have some labels from NAC. According to Wikipedia it stands for 'National Airways Corporation'.

National Airways Corporation was the national domestic airline of New Zealand from 1947 until 1978 when it amalgamated with New Zealand's international airline, Air New Zealand...Today it exists as a 'paper' airline "Air New Zealand National" to manage that airline's domestic jet fleet.

Year: ?, Gummed.

Thailand: SAL labels

SAL labels from Thailand. I didn't even know Thailand had SAL mail until I got these labels :)

They come in sheets of 10.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Iceland: Airmail and Economic

I got these labels from Iceland in the mail today.

They look to be from a roll.



Year: 2009/2010?, Self-adhesive.

Year: 2009/2010?, Self-adhesive.

Year: 2009/2010?, Self-adhesive.

Year: 2009/2010?, Self-adhesive.

I think the first two labels are used for international mail and the next two are used for mail on Iceland only?

Syria: Older airmail labels

These labels are part of a much bigger sheet.

Year: 1953, Gummed.

Vanuatu: Airmail labels

Back in March this year, I wrote a letter to the Vanuatu postal service asking if they would be willing to send some mail labels from their country my way. I included an IRC for the return postage.

I never heard back from them, so I assumed that the letter had gotten lost or that they just wouldn't reply (Sadly a lot of postal services do this)

But some days ago in my mailbox there was a letter from them :) Apparently there had been some mix-up and they apologized. They also included an airmail label.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.


What I find a bit funny is that outside on the envelope they used a totally different airmail label.

From envelope:

Slovakia: Airmail labels

Sent to me by the Slovakia postal service.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.


Then they also included some different 'Trieda Classe' labels. They come from both a roll and a sheet.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.          Year: ?, Self-adhesive.
       

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Israel: Airmail and Express

Newer labels from Israel.

Year: 2005, Self-adhesive.

Year: 2006, Self-adhesive.

I'm pretty sure this is the current design.

Year: 1999?, Self-adhesive.

Netherlands: Airmail labels

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

A nice little sheets of labels. I think they may be an unusual thing? The back has plenty of text, I can't read Dutch but think its an explanation on how priority mail works.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

These are from a roll of labels.

Japan: Airmail labels (1)

Labels from Japan. On yellow paper. Received in 2010. There is also id numbers on the back. All the text is in bold.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Singapore: Airmail labels

From Singapore. Comes on a roll and also in a big sheet of 48.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Malaysia: Airmail labels

Big sheet of Malaysia airmail labels. 40 in total. Design currently in use.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

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Tanzania: Airmail and Express labels

These labels were kindly sent to me by the Tanzania postal service.
Both labels come on a big sheet.

Year: ?, Gummed.

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Year: ?, Gummed.

Looks to have the same design as the express labels from Kenya.

Estonia: Airmail labels

Looks to be from a roll of labels. Current design from Estonia in 2010.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Bosnia: Airmail labels

Labels currently used in Bosnia in 2010. They come on a roll.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Hungary: Priority labels

Labels currently used.

Revised in 2010. They come from a roll.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Canada: Airmail labels

Labels from Canada.
I was told from the Canada postal office that airmail labels are not used anymore, but every time I get mail from Canada airmail labels are used. And someone from Canada sent some my way.
So maybe I got the wrong information?

Year: 2002, Self-adhesive.



EDIT: I have been told, that labels are still very much in use in Canada :)

Kenya: Airmail labels

Comes on a sheet.

These I received from Kenya in 2010. They look like the design listed several times in the 'Airmail labels catalogue' but the size is always off by 1 or 2mm.

Year: ?, Ungummed

           

Italy: Priority labels

They come on a sheet. Of how many, I'm not sure. The sheet I got has 30 labels, but I'm not sure it's complete.

Dark blue and shiny surface.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Belgium: Priority labels

Belgium recently got new airmail labels. I think it was in 2007/2008. Sadly I don't have any of the older ones.
The newer ones come in a sheet of 28 labels. EDIT. They also come in sheets of 10 labels.


Year: 2007/2008, Self-adhesive.

Luxembourg: Airmail/Priority labels

These are the only labels I have from Luxembourg. They have been cut out from a sheet, of how many I am not sure.

Received in 2010.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.