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We’ve been biting our tongue for the past few months, but now it’s official: we’re thrilled to announce that Posti, the Finnish Postal Services, will publish not one or two… but four different Postcrossing stamps this year! :)

The colorful stamps were created by design agency Kokoro & Moi, and will be available on a folded stamp sheet from September 9th onwards, both on post offices and online.

Postcrossing Finnish stamp

Which means, Finnish postcrossers will soon be able to send their postcards using these playful stamps! How cool is that?

It is for us an extraordinary honour to have Postcrossing featured in a stamp, and we’d like to thank not only Posti, who thought the project worth of such recognition, but also all the postcrossers who over the years persistently asked for a Finnish Postcrossing stamp! On 9th September, their dream (and ours) will come true! :)

112 comments so far

Telenn, Netherlands

Congratulations and so great to see other countries picking up the idea to create Postcrossing stamps :D
Too bad the Dutch stamp is not available anymore :(

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shui, Taiwan

Congratulations!!!!! :D What a fantastic set!
I can't wait to receive some now!!!!

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Hotaru, Norway

What a great surprise and what wonderful design for this 2nd Postcrossing stamp serie in the world!!! I will try to collect all 4 (and I bet many others will do the same ;) )

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zelif, Türkiye

cool..

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mondkind, Germany

congratulation... it's really cool... :)

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andrea209, Germany

These stamps are absolutely awesome!!! Can't wait to get my first card with one of them :-)

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Jetske, Netherlands

Congratulations! I love them. :)

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marica_t, United States of America

How amazing! :D

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ForAgo34, Russia

Wow! They look very cute.

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Venia, Norway

The finnish posti is so wonderful - they always have so amazing stamps and now this! Congrats!

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di_o, Slovakia

wow, these are wonderful! i hope i'll get one or two.. :D

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Sofa, Germany

That's cool! I especially love the lower left one...
Too bad they are not yet available at the International Postcrossing Meeting in Helsinki in August - would have been perfect!

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Lucy156, United Kingdom

What a quirky set of stamps!! Great! Look forward to seeing one on a postcard! :)

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TAW, Netherlands

Wow, I love to receive them!!!! They are cute!

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clarissawam, Luxembourg

Woooow, what fun stamps!!! Do want! :D

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kugusch, Germany

Wow! I managed to get my hands on a full sheet of the Dutch stamps to frame and hang by my desk. Unfortunately, in spite all our efforts in the German forum and beyond, we weren't able to convince the German PO to issue any German Postcrossing stamps.....so for now I'll be thrilled for the Finns and will be on a new hunt in September to add these to my REAL wall, and maybe the German PO will eventually change their mind and give us our very own Postcrossing stamps.
Congrats on this achievement!

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Junghuem, Korea (South)

Wow, how wonderful!!

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krizista, Finland

Oh I'm really going to put those stamps on all cards I will be sending in the future

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emotis, United States of America

Wonderful!!!!

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Pebbles84, Netherlands

Those are really cool stamps! :D

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YITICH, Taiwan

Woo~I would want to receive these stamps~

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nesrink, Türkiye

wonderful news!

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nisnoopy3, Malaysia

Many congratz for this amazing stamps! XD I like all four of them! It's cute and cheeky. Very wonderful! :D

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DorotheeB, Germany

AWESOME!!!
Can't wait to get some of those stamps!

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WuDaoyun, China

I hope that i can get a pc have these stamps!

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meiadeleite, Portugal

@Kirsji someone suggested that on Twitter, and USPS replied with the link to the stamp application page: http://t.co/x4PfNSFd5Z :)

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Mama-Bear, United States of America

Yay!! They are so cute!

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pandoraspocks, United States of America

these are amazing! congrats! :)

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nugget, United States of America

Wonderful news!

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Nammak, Netherlands

So nice that a second Postal Services decided to make beautiful Postcrossing Stamps. If I get one on a Finnish card I would be very happy.

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Nells250, United States of America

WOW! A second Postcrossing stamp set! You must be so proud!!!

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lunnikoira, Finland

Wohoo excellent! I'm going to buy those stamps and put in the cards I'll send. So maybe you'll get yours then (: Thanks for all who worked to make this happen !

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Marijaxxx, North Macedonia

Awesome, i would like to receive them :)))

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kiikari, Finland

Even better - at the same time, they will publish Angry Birds stamps :-)

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positivelypostal, United Kingdom

These are great, jsut what's needed to encourage more people to send postcards and actually USE the postal system! Now just need to get Royal Mail in the U..K. to issue some, no easy task! :)

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Mysteria, Germany

I'm excited about this, yay! :)

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rosenbusch, Germany

The stamps are sooo cute. I hope, I receive them with the next postcards from Finland...

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chrissybaby, Ireland

They look great :) Cannot wait to see them on the cards I receive!

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Luziaceleste, Brazil

Wow! That's lovely! looking forward to get a postcard with these stamps!!!!
Congrats to the organizers of the project!!!!

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zwiebelbaguette, Germany

I'm very impressed, those look amazing! =D Great thanks to the finnish Posti, let's hope other countries will follow. =) The Netherlands, Finland... I'm sure there's more to come.

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idus, Germany

That's fantastic news!
Great stamps.
Hope I will receive them on Finnish postcards in the future.

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ipuenktchen, Iran

how awsome - unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
congrats for everybody who was working on!!!!!
I'm really jalous... first NL, now FI - but the germans... no chance...... :-((((((((((((((((
however, lucky finnish postcrosser!!! congratssssssssss!!!

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Blogger, United States of America

I wish they would do that in the USA! I checked, they will not do organizations like this :( Congrats to Finland though - great stamps!!

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isagv, Germany

I am looking forward to get cards with those stamps already. :)

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Geminiscp, Portugal

so cute, I want them too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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leugim, United Kingdom

awesome stamps :) congratulations!

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VincentJJ, Netherlands

When I'm in Holland I use the Dutch PostCrossing stamps, still have some!

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martha66, Netherlands

these look great, look forward seeing them on the card(s).
Dutch postcrossing stamps are still availavble, not via PostNL, but through a few postcard webshops. I still use them.

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zachary, Canada

I applaud the idea of the stamps, I applaud the Finnish Post Office for issuing Postcrossing stamps, but not wanting to rain on anyone's parade, I have to say the stamps themselves are anything but nice. Reminds me of amateur hour, they are so like children's stickers, very childish in design, and no where near what a real stamp should look like. Another wasted opportunity for a beautiful stamp for a beautiful purpose.

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Flossy67, Australia

Wow what an achievement! I love them and hope I manage to get some sent to me :)

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Lorelai, Germany

Super - the Finish Posti stamps are so different + often creative. I'm a proud owner of the Netherland pc-stamp. And Germany? Step for step: A few weeks ago I've got the pc-paper-bag when I bought some postcards.

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PilotOne, Portugal

What a good achievement! After Netherlands here we have Finland launching Postcrossing stamps!
Congratulations to all who made this possible!

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Yaroujidai, Japan

What a cute stamp!I want to use this stamp.

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ned44440, Ireland

Lovely!! Looking forward to receiving cards with these lovely stamps.

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joanneleslie, United States of America

The stamps are very cute! Congratulations to the Finns for being so forward thinking!

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aberline, Australia

i cant wait...more finnish postcrossers!!! :-) I love finnish postcards!

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diananti, Indonesia

Wow!! Cool!!

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Wish4Eternity, Finland

I was REALLY disappointed when I saw the Finnish postcrossing stamps - but I will still buy and use those.. The Dutch ones were a million time better and as someone already said those look really unprofessional and childish.. :(
But on the other hand out of 28 different stamps coming to Finland Sept-Nov 2013 I only like 11 or so :(

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MarAnneli, Finland

Fortunately we have more other beautiful stamps : )

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Elenna, Finland

I like the idea of having a postcrossing stamp but these stamps are just plain ugly in my opinion (which is pretty much the nicest thing I can say about them). Oh well, I guess I'll be using them anyway.

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Ssabalongo, Uganda

I want this Stamps :)

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bornokyo, Philippines

Awesome!

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hmassese, Australia

I wonder how many new members these stamps will bring to postcrossing?

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indianfriendszone, India

Wonderful News....
Congrats and i wish many other countries follow this :)
Keep it up...

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laikis, Sweden

Oh I wish Sweden could do something like that too. But unfortunatelly we're not so many postcrossers here...
I really hope that I can recive someone like that from Finland

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telle, Finland

If the design of those postcrossing-stamps doesn´t please, it is always possible to make own stamps. It costs more, is expensive, but it is worth trying out at least once for special purpose https://verkkokauppa.posti.fi/PublishedService?pageID=18&freePage=2020

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e-Jana, Czech Republic

WOW :-) ... I am looking forward to get these special stamps on postcards!

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Christa, Germany

How wonderful ! My father's favorite collecting !

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chu8145, Taiwan

Have people can exchange with me?
I want it!
Please message to me

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Gema06, Spain

wowww!! So cool :) want them, please, Finnish postcrossers!!

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Femmelot, Netherlands

Awesome! I hope to receive them from our Finnish postcrossers once they're published! (I have to write to the boring Dutch stamp makers... ;))

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Full_Happiness, Finland

How wonderful they are!!!

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anemone1, Finland

I can´t wait to send those stamps. Finally some good news.

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florencen, Australia

fantastic ,I am looking forward to receiving one.

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Roadrunner73, Germany

Great, just can´t wait to receave a card from Finland with one of these stamps.

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Sutomi, Germany

..thats great...hope to get one stick on a postcard ;o)

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lexman, France

can't say i like them, they seem to be inspired by Keith Harings work but i prefer the real thing...

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Babs69, Netherlands

Nice, postcrossing stamps but.. I'm so fortunate to live in Holland. Over here it's possible to create and order your own personal stamps. That's just what I did 2 weeks ago, I used a photo of myself and added a few words.... I love the result and I hope the receivers like it too ;-)

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lotusbloem, Netherlands

I really love these new postcrossing stamps already and I hope that I'll get a lot of cards with these beautiful stamps.

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smadera, Argentina

Wonderful! Espectacular!

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Hund, Finland

Wow! This is awesome!

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windsordoc, Canada

each and everyone of you can see the power of persuasion . I encourage all of you to petition your Postal Service to follow suit

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MissiveMaven, United States of America

Oh, how lovely! First the Netherlands and now Finland. I can't wait to receive one of these from a Finnish friend!

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lucymonty, United Kingdom

Exciting! The one on the bottom left is my favourite :-D

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Riutsi, Finland

I already LOVE them!

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Hetjuffie, Netherlands

I hope all Finnish postcrossers will use these stamps so I might receive some! The stamps look great!! Unfortunately our dutch postcrossing stamp isn't available anymore :(

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monsoon, China

Well done everyone! This is a really wonderful news. Congratulation! 祝贺!!!

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Helgavdn, Netherlands

Great stamps, hope to receive an card, with such an beautyfull stamp, you never know, perhaps.....
Hope the post in the Netherlands bring out some new stamps voor the world, because, the are the same for almost 2 years now...

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Shaoyupc, China

I hope china post can make some stamps about postcrossing!:)

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TonyGv, Spain

woooooooooo great stamps,how much i would like to receive one of them¡¡¡

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marimekko, Finland

That´s amazing! :D I have been waiting those stamps already a long time. ;)

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Kokyz, United States of America

Love them! I look forward receiving at least one :D

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Nani_, Finland

Yay! Now there´s something to expect in autumn! Posti just made me proud, hahah! :)

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crystalfay, Germany

so great! hopefully I will get a postcard from Finland then... :-)

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anemone1, Finland

Now I have learned that there will be Angry Birds stamps, too!

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Minni_24, Finland

I heard it in the news that the Angry Birds stamps will be published also on the 9th of September. Dear Postcrosser Friends, we will "stay tuned and allerted" in Finland and as soon as both Postcrosser and Angry Birds stamps will be published we will be ready to send them for you all. Meanwhile - take care! :)

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Ching6767, China

HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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horyuji, China

It's wonderful!

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Sunnette, Australia

These will look fabulous on Postcards! I hope I get some soon!

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HuangYumei, China

这些看起来真的很漂亮

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ForTreess, Russia

awwwwwww amazing!! grrrrr :)

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amit19, India

Congratulations Postcrossing!!! Its really a great honor by Finnish Post. I love these stamps, they are cute and fun. Hopefully, I get them from someone in Finland....

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softsnow, United States of America

That's great, so happy. Looking forward to receiving one some day.

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lorainedionne, Netherlands

Good day to release them, it's my birthday then!

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snowrab, Malaysia

These are super cute, love them! Thanks for sharing it with us! Happy postcrossing, can't wait to receive some in near future!

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jjmedusa, United States of America

These are great! How impressive!

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Robin67, Austria

Every country should have postcrossing stamps really! Who would have thought that a while ago? Maybe it'll be more countries in years to come. :-)

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Alsudav, Russia

Oh please please send me these stamps :D

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katilaik, Estonia

Kiva! I'm looking forward to next postcard from Finland:)

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meisje47, Netherlands

this is wonderful. I cannot wait to receive mail from Finland.

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lotusbloem, Netherlands

This is really good news for all the postcrossers. Finland is the second country to have the new postcrossing stamps.
The Netherlands was the first country with a beautiful postcrossing stamp, but it is no more aivaible and I'm not happy with that.So, postcrossers from Finland, please send me in September cards with the new postcrossing stamp. Than you make my day!!!

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