PostNL : Experience nature in four seasons with colourful stamps from PostNL
January 02, 2018 at 04:50 am EST
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The photographs on the stamps are colourful portraits of often extraordinary plants and animals in their natural habitats. The images run almost imperceptibly through onto the adjacent stamps. They are also connected with each other through overlapping circles of different sizes. This provides a natural sense of contact between the plants and animals.
The beauty of nature
With the new stamps, PostNL pays tribute to the diversity of nature in our country. 'It's much greater than we sometimes realise at first,' says Stephan van den Eijnden, PostNL's Commercial Director for Mail. 'That makes it even more important for us to work together to maintain the beauty of nature in the Netherlands.'
Thousands of photos
For the 'Experience nature' series, graphic designer Frank Janse from Gouda selected thousands of photographs for each of the four stamp sheetlets. He narrowed these down to a shortlist consisting of around a hundred images, from which he chose the ten photographs that made it onto each stamp sheetlet. He was guided by both the beauty of the photograph and the special characteristics of the depicted plants and animals. The photographs are the work of amateur photographers who send their best images to the PIXFACTORY websites.
Availability
Each of the 'Experience nature' stamp sheetlets consists of ten stamps marked with 'Nederland 1', the denomination for items up to 20g in weight destined for mail in the Netherlands. The stamps are available at all post offices as well as via Collectclub.nl. The stamps are valid until further notice.
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PostNL N.V. specializes in supplying mail, parcels and e-commerce services. The company also provides services in the area of data and document management, direct marketing and fulfilment. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by activity as follows:
- parcel delivery (58.3%): in 2023, PostNL N.V. delivered 343 million parcels in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg;
- mail delivery in the Netherlands (35.4%): 1,745 million postal items processed in 2023;
- other (6.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the Netherlands (85.3%), Europe (8.5%) and other (6.2%).