Bulletin 104 - United Nations Postal Administration

Dear Collectors,
This edition of our Philatelic Bulletin focuses attention on two of our most
popular UNPA series – World Heritage and Indigenous People. It also brings to
a close our 2012 philatelic year. From Autism Awareness to the International
Paralympic Games, it has been a wonderfully colourful programme featuring
the designs of artists from around the world.
BULLETIN 104 • SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2012
Our World Heritage collection for 2012 helps us appreciate the natural
beauty and wonderment of the African continent. To add a bit of flare to the
LETTER FROM THE CHIEF
stamps, we’ve included images of stately creatures that inhabit some of the
African World Heritage sites. The dramatic photographs put you right in the
middle of the action.
For our Indigenous People stamps, we once again called upon Stephen
Bennett to share his unique portrait skills with the UNPA design team.
Stephen has a keen sense of observation and the ability to bring out the
beauty of a face. He succeeds in his artistic endeavours thanks to his appreciation
of human differences and special ability to express and bring light to
a face by his play with colours. For him, a face is a treasure.
I hope you agree these two spectacular issues offer a great end to our annual
stamp programme.
At the beginning of this year, I shared with all of you our changes to the
personalized stamp programme. The response has been very positive and
supportive of our attempt to make the programme more predictable and
less of a financial burden on collectors.
One of the changes we announced was our intent to expand the realm of
personalization to allow United Nations agencies the opportunity to tell their
story in the selvedge of personalized stamp sheets. This summer we used
the programme to highlight the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Although we do not consider this to be a new issue, we understand some
customers would like to have it as part of their collection. As a result, we
are making it available as a miscellaneous item for those collectors who are
interested. It should be noted that the stamps are exactly the same as the
Lunar New Year – Year of the Dragon sheets. If you simply collect one of
every UN stamp, there is no need to add this to your collection.
As always, I appreciate hearing from our UN stamp collecting community.
Your comments help us make important decisions on how to keep the
programme moving forward.
Sincerely,
David E. Failor
DESIGN
UNPA Graphics & Communication
EDITORS
UNPA Editorial Team
FEATURES
4 WORLD HERITAGE – AFRICA
10 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
15 2012 ANNUAL COLLECTION
16 STAMP SHOWS
17 CONTACT AND ORDERING
21 PRODUCTS AVAILABLE
Chief
United Nations Postal Administration
PRINTING
Courier Printing
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