It’s the World Post Day, did you know? It’s celebrated every year, on the 9th of October and it commemorates the founding of the UPU (Universal Postal Union) in 1874 in Bern, Switzerland Capital.
So today, across the world, post offices are celebrating this special day in many different ways. This includes: special philatelic exhibitions, free entrance in postal museums, introducing new products and services, special cancellation marks, seminars, workshops and more!
Actually, in some countries you can even get free goodies (like free postage!) so be sure to check the website for the post offices of your country (hint: if you don’t know the link you can find it in your country page in Postcrossing). Let us know your findings in the comments of this post!
So, go out, buy some postcards or some nice letter paper and write to all your friends and family; remind them that the post is a very important part of our lives.
Happy World Post Day!
11 comments so far
Yeah!
Nothing special here...we dont even have mail service today as it is saturday.
The Canadian postal museum in Ottawa is awesome...anyone in the area should definatley check it out today!
Polish post issued a special stamp of the world post day - http://www.kzp.pl/index.php?artykul=nws-n23-n2311
Nothing special in Finland either...
Happy Birthday, World Post! But, like the other countries above, there were no celebrations in my local post office, not even a mention that it was World Post Day.
In Singapore there's this!
http://www.singpost.com.sg/World_Post_Day/WPD_index.asp
Nothing special in El Salvador.
Post office was decorated with World Post Day posters and banners congratulating the workers. And they were giving away bookmarks with a philatelyst theme.
In Lithuania on this day there's no entrance fee in Communication Museum :)
there is nothing going on in the USA either. at least i couldn't find anything on it.
I'm from Germany, but I find only World Post Day from Tunesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, India + Malta this year.