World Postage Stamp Day
On October 9, we celebrate World Postage Stamp Day and World Post Day. Although the Polish Post Day is only in a few days, today Polish postalists also celebrate as members of the world postal family.
Every year, Poczta Polska gives into the hands of clients and philatelists many wonderful publications that educate, remind about the most important events and characters, commemorate great anniversaries and fill the human need to communicate with culture or art.
The past years have abounded in various projects that aroused great interest among collectors and people using the stamp as a confirmation of the postal fee. Moved on small works of art, which are without a shadow of philatelic, themes aroused emotions, touched, entertained, allowed reflection for a moment - almost no one remained indifferent to them.
- I would like to express the words of the highest recognition for all philatelists, for their contribution to the popularization of the largest values expressed through their daily work in searching and gathering traces of our history contained in small works of art, which are postage stamps - says Wiesław Włodek, vice president of the board of Poczta Polska.
The postage stamp is the basic means of paying fees for postal services. His history dates back to 1840, when thanks to the teacher and clerk of the Royal Mail Great Britain Rowland Hill was introduced into circulation, the first post stamp so -called Black Penny worth 1 salary with the image of the Young Queen Victoria.
It was an epoch -making event to such an extent that soon other countries introduced the stamp as a proof of paying a fee for transport services and delivery of correspondence.
Only 20 years have passed when as the 12th postal administration in the world also the then Kingdom of Poland emitted its first postage stamp. It is worth adding that it was a dozen or so years earlier than Italy, Japan or Germany did. It is also the first officially recognized Polish postage stamp.
Over the following years, postage stamps played their practical role as a testimony of fees for the service of a rapidly developing postal market, becoming imperceptibly one of the most important passions of collectors among hundreds of millions of people in the world.
Today we are also celebrating the World Post Day established on October 9, 1969 to commemorate the signing of the Bernese Treaty establishing the World Postal Association. Postcards in Poland celebrate their holiday on October 18 in memory of the establishment of the first postal connection by King Zygmunt II August in 1558.