POST BY ME
Post By Me is a Spanish private postal operator, specializing in providing postal services for tourists. The company was created in March 2015 under the name BYPOST GLOBAL WORLD SL, and was renamed POST BY ME SL in April 2017.
The company has been registered in the General Register of companies providing postal services since March 10th 2015 with a type B authorisation (B4575), which gives the company the authority to provide postal services which are included within the scope of the universal postal service i.e. letters and postcards up to 2 kilos and parcels up to 20 kilos.
Post By Me deals with the collection, sorting and transportation of ordinary mail, mainly international tourist postcards. In certain cities and tourist areas, Post By Me sales agents visit those commercial establishments selling postcards (such as stationery shops, kiosks, souvenir shops, tobacconists, supermarkets, etc) offering the prospect of selling its labels or stamps, formerly called ‘etiquetas validadoras’ (translated as validating labels), to frank the postcards.
At each of these points of sale, the company places a small metallic green mailbox with its logo either as a free standing mailbox or placed on a table, in which tourists can – in fact, must – post their postcards already franked with the Post By Me stamps, as advertised in their publicity material (envelopes) and on the actual mailboxes.
This is attractive to the establishments or points of sale, as in addition to the sale of postcards, extra income comes from the sale of stamps. Although Post By Me suggests a specific selling price, each establishment freely establishes the final price, which can therefore vary in the same city or area, even from one shop to another in the same street. In 2022 and 2023 we found shops selling these stamps for prices ranging from €1.50 up to €2.
In 2025 Post By Me the largest tourist postal operator in Spain, is operating in 17 tourist areas and with more than 1100 collaborating establishments and mailboxes installed. With more or less regularity, depending on the area and season, sales agents visit the points of sale, supplying more labels if necessary, and collecting the correspondence deposited in the mailboxes.
The POST BY ME ‘tourist’ stamps
For the first two years of business, Post By Me issued a small ‘etiqueta validadora’ or stamp, with a size of 36 x 23 mm, printed on self-adhesive paper, and sold in booklets. These labels include a QR code directing one to a section of the company’s website with maps of its mailbox locations, the Post By Me logo, and an alphanumeric control code, unique to each label or stamp. The top code line (00001PK in the image) corresponds to the booklet number, which identifies the point of sale.
These stamps are valid for the franking of a letter or postcard to any international destination up to 20g. Non-standard mail up to 50g must be franked with two stamps.
Following the CNMC’s confirmation that authorised postal operators to issue and sell postage stamps (see article), Post By Me initiated the release of stamps illustrated with tourist motifs starting in 2018. The designer Camino López created a great collection of watercolour illustrations, 44 of which have already been used for the stamp issue.
In the images below, the places where each design comes from is shown in brackets.
Some of these designs are used in several different tourist areas. The first design (‘Abanicos’ or fans), for example, is used in up to six tourist areas. The stamps are sold in booklets of 50 stamps, consisting of five sheets of 10 self-adhesive stamps with a size of 43 x 25 mm, valid for international mail. Each stamp is die-cut making it easy to remove from the sheet, and is pre-cut so as to enable it to be peeled off from the backing paper.
All the booklets have the same cover design (pictured below left), irrespective of the tourist area. The ten stamps on each sheet have the same design, but the booklets have different combinations of 5 sheets of designs depending on the tourist area. Some areas use five different designs, others only four, so that in this case booklets repeat one sheet with one of the designs (see Pamplona), other areas three, and even one area (Ronda) uses only two designs, so that in each booklet there are three sheets with one design and two sheets with the other.
In addition to the design, each stamp includes the postal operator’s logo, a QR code that directs one to the company’s mailbox map, and an alphanumeric code; this code is made up of two blocks, the upper line is a sequential number, unique to each stamp, while the bottom line corresponds to the booklet.
The POST BY ME issues for Pamplona
The remailing of tourist postcards
(Last updated: July 31st 2025)
(English edition rewritten by J. Gareze – August 2025)
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