Latvijas Pasts releases Christmas series stamps in good time, featuring a QR code with useful information
08.11.2022
On the 11th of November 2022, Latvijas Pasts releases three new postage stamps in the traditional Christmas series so that everyone can have a chance to send their end-of-the-year greetings in time for the holidays. The design of the stamps features miniature sculptures of forest spirits created by the artist Evija Ķivule. This year’s Christmas stamps are special with the QR code embedded in them, which allows you to obtain useful details online, such as information about the stamp tariff groups and the countries to which they can be used as postage. The new stamps 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/. The first day cancellation of the stamps is scheduled to take place in the post centre Sakta at 32 Brīvības bulvāris, Riga, from 9 AM to 6 PM on the 11th of November.
Latvijas Pasts has issued this year’s final postage stamps in the traditional Christmas series, highlighting the approach of the holidays and the timely sending of greetings. The stamps have a self-adhesive base and are accompanied by a special holiday cover with a print run of 800 copies.
The new philatelic releases in the Christmas series have been designed by the artist Ģirts Grīva. In the visual design, he has used the miniature forest spirit sculptures specially created for the Christmas stamps by the artist E. Ķivule.
Each of the stamps has a different face value and print run. The stamp with a face value of €1.20 corresponds to the postage of letter-post items in the weight class up to 20 grams within Latvia, and its print run is 300,000 copies. The stamp with a face value of €1.50 covers the postage of letter-post items in the weight class up to 20 grams to the countries located in
Group 5, and the print run of this stamp is 50,000 copies. In turn, the print run of the stamp with a face value of €1.98 is 50,000 copies and it can be used for paying the postage of letter-post items in the weight class up to 20 grams to the countries located in
Group 14.
It is a unique feature of the Christmas series stamps this year that each stamp has a QR code embedded, which can be used to view relevant information online in the e-shop of Latvijas Pasts, including which tariff groups the stamps belong to, to which countries they can be used as postage and how to purchase them more conveniently.
The new
Christmas series stamps and cover can be viewed
here.
Latvijas Pasts launched the
Christmas series of stamps in 1994, and so far around 80 Christmas stamps with a print run of over one hundred million copies have been released. The stamps in the Christmas series that have been issued to date are available for viewing
here.
The next philatelic release is scheduled for the next year – January 2023.
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
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