Marten Toonder

End of children's stamp issue after 2025???

Written in: Dutch • redactie • 27 August 2023

If the treatment of the commercially minded PostNL company in 2024 (100th anniversary of the children's stamp) corresponds to that of TPG Post regarding the issuance of the 2010 summer stamps (75th anniversary of the summer stamp), then no more children's stamps will appear from 2025 onwards! Recently...

Children's Stamps 2021: 80th Anniversary of Olivier B. Bommel & Tom Poes

Written in: Dutch • redactie • June 23, 2021

On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Netherlands' most famous comic book heroes, Olivier B. Bommel and Tom Poes, five 2021 Kinderpostzegels (Children's Stamps) pay tribute to their adventures, created by Marten Toonder (1912 – 2005). He devised 177 stories. Almost sixty...

Willem Meerkerk over Mouth-watering tart stamps with a sweet scent: I do see a trend in PostNL's new issues. More and more "self-adhesive" stamps, just like with the 2026 children's stamps. htt…

Haas over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unusual: new rates taking effect on a Sunday. PostNL faces a challenge. With priority, it is guaranteed that the next working day (Mon…

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: Are there any online references to the translation of the different stamps? I've been looking around and am not having much luck.

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: I bought one to frame as a gift to my father. And it was semi-difficult to find, but not too terribly expensive.

John Petterson over Drones, Drones on Drones: Nice article! It has inspired me to start collecting drones on stamps as well.

Otto over 2026 FIFA World Cup: Canada, Mexico and USA: The 2026 World Cup unfortunately turned out disastrously for our World Cup team; the beautiful stamps above are a balm for the wound for the football…