EUROPA 2020 Postage Stamp Issues


 * Faroe Islands
 * Poland

Faroe Islands
Europa 2020

27 April 2020

Posta Faroe Islands issued their contribution to EUROPA 2020 - Ancient Postal Routes competition.

Postal routes in the Faroe Islands have always been difficult and challenging. Formidable mountains had to be climbed and deceptive straits crossed to deliver the mail - and sometimes things went very wrong.

The stamp illustrates two postmen in a heavy snowstorm in the mountains building a shelter out of stones to stay alive. It also shows a map with a red line indicating the route travelled by these two postmen.

The route - one of the most challenging postal routes on land - was Klaksvík - Viðareiði, requiring hardy mail carriers to vanquish one of the most inaccessible mountain areas in the Faroe Islands.

Poland
EUROPE. Former Postal Routes

29 April 2020

Polish Post issued a competition stamp which presents the most important communication and postal routes of the 16th century

The stamp design presents a fragment of a schematic map of Poland with marked main postal routes of the 16th century, along with images of foot and horse messengers.

The central part of the stamp shows the course of the Vistula River with the silhouettes of royal cities situated on its banks and the names of the cities: Kraków, Sandomierz, Warszawa, Toruń, Elbląg, Gdańsk.