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25.01.2017
Latvijas Pasts in collaboration with the news portal Delfi calls on voting for the most beautiful stamp 2016 starting from today, the 23rd of January 2017, and until 12 PM on the 6th of February. The voting is held in the section Gada pastmarka 2016 (Stamp of the Year 2016) on the portal Delfi. Your favourite stamp of 2016 can be selected from a total of 25 last year’s stamp releases, consisting of 31 stamps and four stamp blocks.
A postage stamp is a valuable element, which is used worldwide to pay for postal items, and at the same time a stamp is also a collectible item and a national recognition symbol. Therefore postal establishments use special criteria when deciding specifically what to depict on the stamps released in a given year. The total number of the stamps issued by Latvijas Pasts in 2016 is nine million.
A large part of the stamps issued in 2016 continued the already well-known and traditional stamp series, such as Flowers, Latvian Birds, Latvian Architecture, Lighthouses of Latvia, Republic of Latvia – 100, Christmas, etc. A new addition was the first stamp in the series Historical Ships of the 19th Century, which was launched this year. The stamp was dedicated to Andreas Weide, the largest sailing ship ever built in the territory of Latvia.
The yearly stamp issued by Latvijas Pasts which can be created with the participation of anyone interested and which becomes the winner as a result of the public vote in social networks has already become a tradition. 2016 was the year when Latvijas Pasts held the fifth stamp design competition, which this time was dedicated to the 125th anniversary of Gustavs Ērenpreiss, the legendary Latvian bicycle brand creator. A total of 9,097 votes were cast through social networks for the stamps shortlisted for the finals.
The postage stamp issue plan in Latvia is developed by the Stamp Issue Committee on the basis of the proposals submitted regarding the stamp themes related to events significant for Latvia, history, nature, architecture, culture, science and sporting achievements as well as other events and important personalities. Besides the representatives of Latvijas Pasts, the composition of the Committee includes Rector of the Art Academy of Latvia Aleksejs Naumovs and Vice President of the Latvian Philatelic Society Egils Plūme. In 2017 Latvijas Pasts plans to make 23 new stamp releases, which will consist of 30 stamps and two stamp blocks.
Voting for the most beautiful stamp 2016 within the competition may be done once a day from one IP address. Vote for the most beautiful stamp here!
About SJSC Latvijas Pasts
Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with more than 4,200 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by TNS Latvia, one of the leading market, social and media research agencies in Latvia. In turn, the quality measurements of the cross-border deliveries are provided within the framework of the International Post Corporation through the intermediary of the research companies TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.
Additional information:
Gundega Vārpa
Head of External Communications
Phone: +371 67608505
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; gundega.varpa@pasts.lv
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