During 2008 Palestine issued one series of stamps: During the 24th UPU Congress, an agreement between Palestine and Israel to allow direct mail exchange between Palestine and Jordan was reached: |
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Mahmoud Darwish 2008The commemorative stamps series for the now late Mahmoud Darwish (13.03.1941–9.08.2008) was announced by MTIT on 29.07.2008, with the actual day of issue believed to be in early August 2008. The design shows "2007" and was obviously planned for an earlier date, the issue near to his death was coinicidental. Four values, denominated at 150, 250, 350, and 450 Fils, were printed on 22.05.2008 in sheets of 28 each by "Post Printer of Tunisia" (as stated on the sheet border, the stamps themselves state "Tunisian Post printer", ie. Imprimérie de la Poste Tunisienne) with a print run of 35,980 (ie. 1,285 sheets of each value). Perforation: K 13. Two sets of official FDCs were issued, both using a non-generic envelope (images and text imprint on the left) with either all four stamps (turned 90°) or two FDCs with two stamps each; all are cancelled by a special first-day postmark stating Palestinian National Authority / The First Day of Issued / Post / Ministry of TIT dated 29.07.2008. Upon private intiative further FDCs do exist: with or without imprinted images (see illustrations below).
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Illustrations of official (left) and private (right) FDCs. |
UPU: Agreement for Direct Mail Exchange
During the 24th UPU Congress in Geneva the following declaration was published. Whether this agreement between the PNA and Israel will be implemented and how it will effect actual postal traffic remains to be seen.
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