February 18, 2005: 50th Anniversary of the Cambodian Red Cross
No FDC for this issue was officially released by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the Kingdom of Cambodia. This example was created by the author of this website with the assistance of the staff of the Philately Section of the Central Post Office (CPO) in Phnom Penh who were kind enough to allow me use of their RP2 postmark.
Other collectors can also get access to the RP2 postmark used by the Philatelic Section at the Central Post Office in Phnom Penh to make their own covers.
It would appear that a very small number of sellers are using this opportunity to try to sell their own covers on internet auction websites, such as delcampe.net, as FDC's officially issued by the Royal Government of Cambodia.
In the view of the author of this website, any FDC that contains a RP2 postmark should be considered as suspicious!
The Cambodian postal authorities keep a master list of officially released stamps, souvenir sheets and FDC's, so it is easy to spot the fakes!
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