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21.11.2024
Christmas is the perfect time to make your loved ones happy with a letter or greeting card sent by post. To endow holiday season’s correspondence with special meaning, Latvijas Pasts adds new stamps to its Christmas series year on year. Starting November 22, this year’s festive spirit will be captured by three stamps, blending artistic beauty with postal functionality. Designed by illustrator Roberts Rūrāns, these stamps showcase his talent, recognised both in Latvia and internationally.
A stamp is a miniature work of art on an envelope where beauty and functionality meet – this is how Roberts Rūrāns sees it and reflects this perspective in his artistic creations. Beauty as a value is one of the guiding principles in the artist’s work, so everything in the process of creating the stamps has played a role: bright and vivid tints of colour, acrylic paints, delicate brush strokes and, most importantly, the complementary messages.
The origins of the Christmas stamps lie in the artist’s ideas and sketches which tell their individual stories and also their common story. Later on they are digitised, with subsequent painting of the finest details and transferring back to digital format for text addition and design finalisation.
Each stamp tells its own story, but together they reflect the entire holiday cycle in the life of one family: preparing for the holiday, honouring the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ and celebrating Christmas. The figures in all three stamps are harmonised, and the stamp frames and elements contribute to a cohesive design.
Each stamp has a different denomination and number of copies printed. The stamp valued at 1.65 euro is designed for letter correspondence weighing up to 20 grams within Latvia. It has a circulation of 150,000 copies. The stamp with the nominal value of 1.97 euro is for letters up to 100 g sent within Latvia, and the circulation of this stamp is 30,000 copies. The stamp with a nominal value of 2.08 euros is issued in 30,000 copies and is intended for letters weighing up to 20 grams sent to Group 14 countries.
The stamps are printed on a self-adhesive base, and a special holiday season envelope has also been designed, with a limited edition of 500 copies.
The first cancellation of the stamps will take place on 22 November at the post office at 41/43 Elizabetes Street, Rīga, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
The Christmas stamp series of Latvijas Pasts, launched in 1994, has since featured over 80 unique designs, with a total circulation exceeding 100 million copies.
The new stamps will initially be available for purchase at the post offices in major cities and in Latvijas Pasts online store at https://veikals.pasts.lv/.
The next stamp issue is scheduled for 3 December.
Latvijas Pasts stamps are highly appreciated by customers, collectors and experts alike. International stamp collector associations consider Latvijas Pasts stamps, issued in accordance with strictly regulated standards, as equivalent to stamps issued by leading countries globally. They are regularly included in the world-renowned stamp catalogues and added to prestigious private collections.
About Latvijas Pasts VAS
Latvijas Pasts is a state-owned company, and its business branches include postal, logistics and financial services. The company specialises in domestic and international deliveries, from e-commerce and parcel shipments to press, letter correspondence and personalised logistics solutions. Latvijas Pasts, using reliable air, water and land transit connections, provides services to both private individuals and business customers. The national post operator’s team comprises approximately 2,200 employees.
Latvijas Pasts takes care of its customers in more than 155 post offices and operates the largest parcel locker network in Latvia. The company continuously introduces innovations and state-of-the-art technologies, developing the largest network of parcel lockers in the country. Latvijas Pasts’ vision is to become the first choice postal service provider for every Latvian resident.
More information:
Inita Fedko | PR Manager
Mobile: +371 26663732
Email: pr@pasts.lv, inita.fedko@pasts.lv
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