October is traditionally International Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In 2025, that campaign takes on a striking philatelic touch. In collaboration with Pink Ribbon vzw, bpost is releasing a special issue: a stamp in fluorescent pink ink, with the iconic pink ribbon at the center. "This stamp...
Tomorrow is the big day, so if you still want to send a bulk of mail, do it today. Chances are the mailbox has already been emptied by the mail carrier who stopped by this morning. But at the postal companies...
From November 18 to December 31, 2019, the 2019 Etos Christmas stamps are for sale in all Etos stores. Deposit your Christmas mail in the special mailboxes in any Etos store where you purchased the Christmas stamps. If the Christmas mail accidentally ends up in...
Yesterday morning, the Gooise Meren Police received a report that someone had found a remarkable spot in the woods. The caller noticed that quite a bit of digging had taken place, but that it had also been left tidy. He had also found a part of...
Two articles in the NRC of April 2 and 6, 2019, with the titles 'Prevent a monopoly, the postage stamp will become far too expensive' and 'Letterbox for one, or for all?' have prompted me to write a brief summary...
PostNL and Sandd are joining forces by merging their postal networks. This marks an important step to keep postal delivery reliable, accessible, and affordable for the entire Netherlands, according to the PostNL spokesperson. PostNL and Sandd are already announcing today...
Postal administrations from various countries issue postage stamps. Postal companies wish to combat counterfeiting and forgery, or make it significantly more difficult to render the reuse of stamps impossible. A security method consists of creating elliptical, star-shaped, or diamond-shaped holes in the perforation....
Since the departure of the creative spirit of Julius Vermeulen (visual communications advisor) from PostNL on January 1, 2017, they have increasingly been unable to find the right creative and artistically gifted designer and combine him with a...
In addition to a sheet of 20 regular 2018 December stamps (titled 'The Magic of December'), a sheet of 10 identical Personal December stamps was also released on November 5. The 2018 Personal December stamps sheet features a new fixed frame and 'Netherlands' typography...
The daily newspaper De Telegraaf reported on Saturday, December 9, 2017: “A war has broken out between PostNL and Sandd over the Christmas stamps. Sellers of the Sandd stamps have been informed by PostNL that they can no longer sell the special Christmas stamps of the...”
The philatelist in the Netherlands is primarily concerned with PostNL stamps. However, 'variants of interest' can be distinguished within this collection, for which a small number of collectors are currently showing interest. This concerns the stamp issues of alternative postal carriers, which as...
The competing Christmas stamps from postal service provider Sandd are also valid at parcel delivery service DPD starting this week. The companies have entered into a partnership to this effect, DPD reports. Customers can now also hand in Christmas cards bearing the stamp at the approximately eight hundred drop-off points of...
In a relatively short time, Sandd has issued three stamp hanging sheets. There are several similarities between the stamp images: On all self-adhesive stamps, the face value is stated literally in text, with 'sandd.nl' (in red) and 'sandd.' (in blue) underneath on a white background. The...
The postal company Sandd from Apeldoorn is launching an attack on PostNL with a 60-cent stamp for sending a postal item on the domestic mail market weighing 0 to 20 grams. The Sandd stamp is currently 18 cents cheaper than...
Postal company Sandd wants to compete with PostNL in the private postal market. "We can offer it at a lower price," says CEO Ronald van de Laar. In November, Sandd presented a plan to caretaker Minister Kamp (Economic Affairs) regarding the so-called law...
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