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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2931664, member: 81887&quot;]Well, that stamp (along with a couple of others of the same design) was on a letter that was mailed to me (in the United States) from an Ebay postcard seller in Nagorno-Karabakh.&nbsp; The postmark is Stepanakert, the N-K capitol.&nbsp; (I had bought a couple of Armenian postcards from this seller.)&nbsp; So, it is possible (or at least was, ~8 years ago) to mail internationally from N-K using these stamps.&nbsp; However, I don&#039;t think this means that the International Postal Union officially recognizes them, it probably just means that some slip through the system.</p><p>&nbsp; My understanding is that international mail from Nagorno-Karabakh gets sent to Armenia, and through the Armenian postal system gets sent to destinations worldwide.&nbsp; This all happens of course &quot;unofficially&quot; since Armenia doesn&#039;t want to anger Azerbaijan by recognizing N-K; but since the people of N-K are ethnically Armenian, and there are plenty of family and business ties, money and goods cross the border pretty regularly despite attempts by Azerbaijan to stop it.&nbsp; (I expect that smuggling and/or bribery of border officials may be involved.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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