Newsletter # 42 (794) October 9, 2018
On October 15, 2018 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue the stamps “Happy New Year!” and “Merry Christmas!”.
Design: Tatyana Kuznetsova. Print process: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforations: comb 123/4. Stamps size: 40,3x40,3 mm. Sheets composition: 6 (3x2) stamps. Sheets size: 137x143 mm. While printing the stamps they used the technology of thermal stamping by metalized foil of red colour. Print quantity: 60.000 stamps each.
Printer: Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House named after A. T. Nepogodin”.
Face value “A” is equal to the tariff of a letter up to 20 gram within Belarus.
Face value “N” is equal to the surface tariff of a postcard abroad.
No. 1278
Happy New Year! A
Element of protection
No. 1279
Merry Christmas! N
Element of protection
A sheetlet is also issued. Sheetlet composition: 4 (2 sets) stamps. Size of the sheetlet: 114x124 mm. Print quantity: 15.000 sheetlets.
Colour of the postmark — red.
Special postmark and FDC designed by T.Kuznetsova.
A special cancellation on FDC will be carried out at the post office No.1 of Minsk (shop “Philately”,16 Moskovskaya street) on the stamp issuing day.