On January 29, the first stamp issues from Belgium were released. These concern the following issues: Winning Belgium: Diamond Sector, 60 Smurf Years, and Belgian Beer Culture – Sparkling Heritage. In the theme series 'Winning Belgium', bpost in 2018 highlights the various facets of the...
Two stamp booklets containing ten 12F stamps were issued on September 24, 1984. These two booklets were not produced by Joh. Enschedé & Zonen but were compiled from counter sheets. Therefore, the stamps in the booklets are perforated on all four sides...
Cycling hero Eddy Merckx (71) is now available on at least one stamp featuring his likeness. Nine other Belgian winners of the Tour de France also feature on the unique stamp collection created by Pieter Willems. "I think it is a beautiful stamp....
In 2014 the town of Dinant, and particularly the ”Association Internationale A. Sax”, celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax. Dinant is a city in Belgium on the banks of the Meuse...
"After an extensive analysis, it appears that the proposed tariff increase would lead to prices that are clearly above costs plus a reasonable profit, and this is contrary to the European and Belgian legal postal framework for universal postal services," it states...
As every year, we are publishing the complete bpost issuance program on Postzegelblog. This page can be viewed via the Issues tab in the menu bar. There are some great issues planned. The first Belgian stamps will appear on January 30....
PostNL has rejected the unsolicited and conditional takeover proposal from the Belgian bpost. The board has confidence in the carrier's independent strategy. However, there are further objections: The proposed price is an 'insufficiently convincing value proposition' for the shareholders...
Bpost confirms in a press release that it is working on an acquisition of the Dutch PostNL. However, the internal discussions have not yet reached the decision-making stage, the statement reads. PostNL is "unpleasantly surprised" by the report. Bpost has...
Flemish MP Peter Dedecker of The New Flemish Alliance has put forward a proposal to further liberalize the postal service and organize delivery by region. Market forces should make postal delivery cheaper, but there are certainly caveats. A...
By now, we have become accustomed to quite a bit when it comes to international cooperation between postal services. Recently, a takeover of PostNL by Bpost fell through. Today, we processed new stamps from Portugal and discovered, to our surprise, on...
bpost presented various stamp issues today. This included a series of five stamps dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death of Flemish painter and sculptor Rik Woulers. The most important Belgian Fauvist artist, Rik Wouters (1882-1916), died 100 years ago. An issue featuring...
Due to the bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940, large areas of the city center lay fallow after the Second World War. Reconstruction had begun, but far from everywhere. After consultation between the Municipal Government of Rotterdam...
As long ago as 1966, Belgium issued a stamp with a dinosaur on it. Very revolutionary for the time. On May 28 of that year, a stamp was released with a picture of the skeleton of an Iguanodon. This dinosaur...
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