My Postcard and Cover Blog

The European Youth Capital (abbreviated EYC) is the title awarded to a European city for the period of one year, during which it is given t...

These nice stamps on this FDC from Indonesia were issued as a joint Issue between Singapore and Indonesia to celebrate the 50th Anniversary...

Today is a special day for all the people of the Faroe Islands. The 25th April is National Flag Day. On this day the people commemorates th...

Chinese new year started on Friday, February 16, 2018. The Dog (狗) is the eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chin...

In collaboration with the Hong Kong Observatory , Hongkong Post issued a set of special stamps with the theme of "Weather Phenomena...

This Cover is all about Cycling. Both stamps used to frank this cover from Luxembourg are related to Cycling. The right one was issued be...

The stamp for the 2017 EUROPA Series of Slovakia depicting the Lietava castle in Northern Slovakia. The castle was built after 1241, most ...

October 31, 2017 was the date of the 500th anniversary of the so-called "Reformation". On this date back in 1517, Martin Luther (...

Aziz Sancar (born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkp...

On October 20th the US Postal Service and the Canada Post jointly issued a stamp dedicated to one of the most famous sports in North Americ...

Only three day left and one of the major world wide sport events is going to start. The XXIII. Olympic Winter Games will take place from 9...

Lithuanian Post issued two stamps for the 2017 EUROPA theme "Castles". The stamps on this cover below are showing ancient documen...

The history of Liechtenstein’s postal service began 200 years ago with a mail collection station in Balzers . On 1 September 1817, the k.k....

I will end the year of 2017 with a new country on my Blog. Some weeks ago I received two nice Covers from Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is the wor...

Canada Post and India Post issued joint stamps to commemorate Diwali as well as cultural and historic bilateral ties. Diwali or Deepavali ...

The 2017 UCI Road World Championships were held in 2017 in Bergen , Norway. It was the 90th UCI Road World Championships and the second to ...

The 13th National Games of China were held in Tianjin and Luoyang, Henan in August-September 2017. It is the premier sports event in China ...

On 24 May 2017, Åland Post and Posti Finland jointly issued stamps on the theme Sauna traditions. The Finnish sauna is a substantial part o...

On this nice Cover from India you can see a nice mini-sheet as India-Portugal Joint Issue featuring "Dandiya Dance" of India and ...

The stamp on this nice Cover is from the series "Latvijas arhitektūra" issued by Latvia Post (Print-run: 150.000). It shows the n...

The Polarstern expedition PS107 to the Arctic (Tromsø – Tromsø) started on 23 July 2017 and led particularly to study areas in the central ...

Paamiut, formerly known as Frederikshåb, is a town in southwestern Greenland in the Sermersooq municipality. It is located on the coast of ...

Another country that issued a Postcrossing stamp is Switzerland. Three stamps have been issued with Demoninations of 1,00 CHF, 1,50 CHF an...

Korea Post issued this nice set of stamps showing must-see tourist destination in Korea. This is the third edition of this series and it fe...

On 8th September Latvijas Pasts issued the latest in their annual series commemorating Latvian Lighthouses. This issue features the Lighth...

On 14 July 2017,   Pos Indonesia  issued three (3) stamps and one minisheet dedicated to Postcrossing . These colourful stamps are illustra...

Schönbrunn Palace (German: Schloss Schönbrunn) is a former imperial summer residence located in Vienna, Austria. The 1,441-room Baroque pa...

The 2017 G20 Hamburg summit was the twelfth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), which was held on 7–8 July 2017, at Hamburg Messe, in the...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organisation comprising ten Southeast Asian states which...

Fix und Foxi, created by the comic book editor Rolf Kauka , is one of the most successful and best known German comic series. The weekly ma...