On October 9, 1874, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) was founded in the Swiss capital, Bern, with approximately 150 national postal companies affiliated. PostNL (then PTT) became a UPU member on July 1, 1875. At the 1969 UPU Congress in Tokyo...
In 1999, the Universal Postal Union, the UPU, celebrated its 125th anniversary. And Posten Åland could not be left behind with an issue. But 1999 was also the year of the introduction of the euro, the Europa stamp with a double value indication, in marks...
One of the founders of the Universal Postal Union, or UPU, was Heinrich von Stephan. He was born on January 7, 1831, in Stolp, present-day Słupsk on the coast of Poland, once part of the Kingdom of Prussia. He...
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