Stamp collecting is healthy and educational. A diversity of themes showcasing different social landscapes and scenery, domestic customs and tradition as well as culture and arts in miniature are featured in stamps through which we can acquire knowledge and find wonderful joy.

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published March 19th, 2013

Stamp Collecting Month endeavours to interest children in the hobby of stamp collecting and occurs in October each year. Australia Post staff members engage with primary school children and teachers, explaining the background to stamps and stamp collecting through a specially selected theme. This year’s theme is Australian Zoos.

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published October 1st, 2012

Amid a sea of smiles, the U.S. Postal Service celebrated the issuance of 125 million new stamps today featuring popular Disney•Pixar characters. The Mail a Smile Forever stamps official First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony took place at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort.

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published June 11th, 2012

This series is made up of eight classic Israeli children’s books. These books have become a common cultural denominator for two and even three generations of Israelis, from the first book in the series, “Come to Me, Nice Butterfly”, which was published in 1945 through “Itamar Walks on Walls”, which came out in 1986.

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published April 21st, 2012

Stand by for 1^st Class fun and frolics as Royal Mail pays homage to the great British comic on ten new stamps. Comics, issued on 20^th March, also marks the 75^th birthday of The Dandy, Britain’s longest running comic, and celebrates by featuring 10 comic front covers, together with one of its iconic characters.

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published February 22nd, 2012

Greenland’s Home Rule (Naalakkersuisut) and Unicef Danmark have started a collaboration on the project “NAKUUSA” (“Let us be strong “). Camilla Nielsen has drawn the humorous stamp, which is also issued as a souvenir sheet.

Technical Details

Issue Date: 16.01.2012

Designer: Camilla Nielsen

Printer: Offset

Process: Offset

Values: 8.50 DKK

Source: Wopa

published January 21st, 2012

Australia Post has produced its Special Occasions stamp series for well over a decade, creating stamp designs for use with greeting cards and similar correspondence. This new issue in the series focuses on some of the personal events that mark our everyday lives – occasions such as a marriage, birthday, anniversary or arrival of a newborn.

All six stamps in this issue can be used for postage in the traditional manner, or else be customised to become Personalised Stamps™, where a photograph of the customer’s choice features in a tab alongside the stamp.

Issue highlights.
This issue contains a prestige booklet as well as a collection of all the 60c booklets in the issue.

Source: Australia post

published January 19th, 2012

Giant peaches, fantastic foxes and a very famous chocolate factory are set to appear on the nation’s letters!  Royal Mail has launched its first special stamps of 2012 with ten stamps paying tribute to the wonderful work of author Roald Dahl launched on 10^th January.

A set of six stamps celebrate some of Roald Dahl’s most popular stories and feature illustrations by Quentin Blake, whose drawings appeared in all Roald Dahl’s children’s classics.  (read more)

published January 13th, 2012

Royal Mail’s 2012 Special Stamp programme is set to celebrate a very special year in the UK’s heritage, with both the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee being celebrated in stamps issued throughout the year.

The first of several stamp issues celebrating the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will go on sale on 5^th January.  These definitive stamps, which are the nation’s everyday stamps, will be available from all Post Office branches and thousands of retailers.  These stamps are set to be used to post millions of letters and cards, sharing the London 2012 celebration across the UK and overseas. Other stamps be issued throughout the year to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games, include for the first time ever Gold Medal stamps to mark Team GB Olympic victories.  (read more)

published January 4th, 2012

Since the foundation of the Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival in 1974, the “Golden Clown” has become the most respected prize in the Circus world. Under the presidency of H.S.H. Princess Stephanie of Monaco the 36th Festival will again present the best acts of the international Circus scene.

Technical Details:

Design : Elena ZAÏKA

Printing process : Heliogravure

Size of the stamp : 30 x 41 mm vertical

Sheet of 10 stamps with illuminations

published December 6th, 2011

Since 2006, the Portuguese Post have associated themselves to the National Reading Plan, an initiative from the Ministry of Education in articulation with the Ministry of Culture and the Cabinet of the Ministry of Parliamentary Matters, with the aim of increasing the literacy level of the Portuguese, and created the program: ‘Onde te leva a Imaginação?” (Where will your imagination take you?).
This year, which is the 5th edition of this program, the country’s schools have been called upon to take part in various initiatives under the motto ‘Imagine and create a more sustainable tomorrow’, viz. development of the activity ‘Where will a stamp take you?’ following the new positioning of the brand: ‘CTT- with you for a sustainable future’.

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published November 30th, 2011