Bpost has planned nineteen special issues of stamps in 2024. These will deal with themes such as the Olympic Games, the elections and a hundred years of surrealism, but there will also be a stamp in memory of babies who died during pregnancy or shortly after birth. .
On a technical level, bpost is introducing, among other things, round stamps. These will be published at the end of August under the theme ‘the Universe’. They will depict various celestial bodies, such as Venus, Mars, Earth and the moon, floating around the James Webb Telescope, the Postal Service said in a news release on Friday. The ‘Whispering Stars’ stamp, to make the theme of perinatal mourning (the loss of a baby in the womb or shortly after birth) more discussed, will also be complete.
Bpost also presents “Belgium’s first crypto stamp”. This will consist of a physical stamp and its digital image. The digital images will be collectible. More details will follow in the run-up to the release.
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bpost is also planning to issue ‘glow in the dark’ stamps with a nature theme, or stamps with depth effects for ‘100 years of surrealism in Belgium’. And with the issue around ‘150 years of the Universal Postal Union’, bpost wants to set the record for the stamp with the most words – specifically 2024 – on it. The stamp series on the squares of the city of Arlon in October will be the last to be printed on the historic intaglio press of the bpost stamp printing plant.
There will also be stamps on music kiosks, glass art, the inventor of Bakelite Leo Baekeland, contemporary dance and impressionist Emile Claus. And there is an election stamp with a hen harrier drawn by André Buzin.
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