Week 2
Joensuu, Finland

The second letter, from the 104 I will sent, is posted. I successfully accomplish the two letters of this week! hurrah!!! 🙂

While placing the stamp on this envelop, I decide to collect the stamps in this blog. Honestly, since I live in Finland, I learn to appreciate the art embedded in the stamps. In my previous post, I aimed to include in the photo the teddy bear stamp, but it does not look so good. Thus, now, I will explicitly take a photo of them.

The following stamp I bought it in 2012, when Helsinki was the World Design Capital. Posti (the Finnish post office), offered a set of stamps entitled  Future City. There was an open competition for selecting the stamps of the Future City set, which received 1422 submissions and and only eight were selected by a jury (information taken by the Postimerkkisuunnittelukipailun voittajat). The stamp used for my second letter is one of the selected ones.

Stamp designed by Varpu Kangas