Postal Service issues transportation stamps
If you collect stamps or enjoy sending them to friends and relatives abroad, you’ll be glad to hear four new stamps are being released. To celebrate the one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary of the Universal Postal Union, the Belize Postal Service has decided to show the “transportation used in Belize to haul and deliver mail” on the new stamps. Public relations officer for the Post Office, Verlene Arzu says the stamps tell the story of how the mail was delivered in Belize from the old days to the present time.
Verlene Arzu, Public Relations Officer, Post Office
“The twenty-five cents stamp has a postman on it in full uniform and he’s delivering mails on his bicycle and a lot of people might not know because of the post office boxes that we have now, that we still deliver mail, house to house, twice a day.
The sixty cents stamp depicts truck at the old treasury building, where the post office used to be and it shows how we used to deliver mail. There were the ships that bring in the mail and they used to be loaded on the truck and were taken to the post office and delivered that way.
The seventy-five cents stamp features the ship named “Dee”. Back in the 1800’s this was the ship that we employed to bring mails to Belize.
The dollar stamp shows the most modern means of transportation that we have to deliver mails to Belize and this is the Boeing 737/200.”
The stamps were designed by John Batchelor. A mint set of the four stamps cost two dollars and sixty cents, with first day covers, the stamps are three dollars and sixty cents. The stamps will be in circulation for six months. Belize has been a member of the Universal Postal Union since 1879.
