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14.06.2022
Latvijas Pasts in collaboration with the Latvian Fund for Nature has issued a new stamp and cover featuring a rare and highly endangered plant, water lobelia. This beautiful and ornamental plant is a symbol of the purity and biological youth of Latvia’s lakes. The new philatelic release will first be available for purchase at the post offices of the largest cities, as well as in the e-shop of Latvijas Pasts https://veikals.pasts.lv/ starting from the 17th of June 2022. The first day cancellation of the stamp is scheduled to take place in the post centre Sakta at 32 Brīvības bulvāris, Riga, from 9 AM to 6 PM on the 17th of June 2022.
The print run of the stamp Water Lobelia is 50,000 copies. Its face value is €1.20, which corresponds to the postage of letter-post items weighing up to 20 grams in Latvia. The release of the stamp is accompanied by the issue of a special cover with a print run of 800 copies. The stamp and the cover have been designed by the artist Edgars Folks.
Water lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna) is a 20 to 70 cm tall perennial aquatic plant with a dense leaf rosette and a long flower-bearing stem rooted in sandy or gravelly soil that raises an inflorescence of three to 12 white flowers above the water surface during flowering. This beautiful and ornamental plant blooms from mid-June to late July.
Lobelia is a symbol of the purity and biological youth of Latvia’s lakes. It is widespread in the clean and nutrient-poor lakes of the northern regions of Europe and North America. Nowadays, it is a rarity in Latvia and is a highly endangered plant species; therefore, it is included in Category 1 of the Latvian Red Data Book as particularly protected. In the first half of the 20th century, it was found in at least 50 lakes in Latvia, but today it has survived in no more than 29 lakes.
The new stamp and the cover Water Lobelia can be viewed here.
The next philatelic release is scheduled for the 8th of July.
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 around 3,000 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by Kantar TNS, 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 Kantar TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.
Additional information:
Vineta Kļaviņa | Senior Public Relations Project Manager
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv, vineta.klavina@pasts.lv
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