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4 • ÅLANDSPOSTEN FRIMÄRKEN NEWS ROBERT JANSSON Time for the annual postal race The starting shot for this year’s edition of the Postal Boat Race will be fired on 19 June. This will be the 37 th race to be held. A special cancellation will be arranged in connection with the race once again. In addition to the special cancel, the Post will be selling a lovely commemorative card adorned with the special cancel and a commemorative cancel, which serves to certify that the mail was actually carried by one of the postal boats. To facilitate the processing of orders, we ask our customers to use the coupon below, even when ordering special and/or commemorative cancellations on your own pre-franked and self-addressed covers. To guarantee delivery, orders will be accepted until Friday 11 June. ORDERING COUPON ❐ Yes, please, I order the special cancellation on the enclosed items of mail. The special cancellation is free of charges. ❐ Yes, please, I order __ commemorative card(s) with the special- and commemorative cancellations at €2.50/card. ❐ Yes, please, I wish to have both the commemorative and special cancellations on the enclosed prefranked and self-addressed items of mail. Price: €1.70/item. NAME ................................................................................................................... FULL ADDRESS ....................................................................................................... ............................................................... COUNTRY ......................................... CUSTOMER NO. ............................................. ❐ MALE ❐ FEMALE PHONE NUMBER .................................................................................................... E-MAIL ............................................................................................................... Send your coupon to Åland Post Stamps, P.O.Box 1100, AX-22111 MARIEHAMN, ÅLAND, Finland. The coupon and any personal covers will be accepted until 11 June. The coupon may be copied.
ÅLANDSPOSTEN FRIMÄRKEN • 5 CHRONICLE ”Dear stamp people. How are you, really” FRED FORSELL Columnist with Åland origins, editor of the Amelia magazine Most beautiful in 2009 The most beautiful Åland 2009 stamp has now been elected. The two Åland scenery stamps with photographies from Saltvik and Föglö won the contest. The two stamps received 191 votes of the 608 votes cast in total. Åland authors came in second and in third place we find the Diving stamp. We congratulate the winners, the names of which were drawn from all votes cast: Päivi Raunio, Kellokoski, Finland Anne-Marie Lillebuen, Kristiansand, Norway Jürgen Tandler, Wallerstein, Germany Diana Sjöblom, Mariehamn, Åland Ethel Eriksson, Brändö, Åland Pierluigi Bertotti, Torino, Italy Competition winners The winners of the competition in the previous edition of Ålandsposten Frimärken have now been drawn, and they are: Roger Blomqvist, Pietarsaari, Finland Olle Haraldsson, Arkelstorp, Sweden Manfred Tiltsch, Hagen, Germany The prizes have been shipped by mail. The correct answers were: 1. Modern shipping 4. Alandia Cup 2. Martin Mörck 5. Västerås 3. Chanterelle DEAR PHILATELISTS. Dear stamp people. How are you, really Don’t get me wrong. This is not meant as mockery. I am not carrying with me a condescending sack of mordant irony. I am honestly curious to learn how you are. I imagine that the decline of letter writing and ensuing use of postage must be affecting you. You must feel it somehow, somewhere, inside of you – or Without any evidence to support my theory, I imagine that you, dear enthusiasts, are reacting to the worldwide declining interest in stamps in any of the following manners: FIRSTLY, those of you who tighten your fist in your pocket and cry ”HA! Perfect! Now we are spared the amateurs, those who without batting an eyelid would try to affix the “3 Skilling” Yellow itself to that obligatory Christmas card to an aunt whose name they no longer remember. HA!” SECONDLY, you who sit down in your favourite armchair, take out your finest collections and admire them – while sadly pondering whether stamps will fall into oblivion as did the telex machine, the scented stickers of the 80s and the collected “music production” of former bosomy pop queen Samantha Fox. AND THIRDLY, you who do not care. You enjoy your hobby and you couldn’t care less if the surrounding world communicates by letters, telepathy or smoke signals. Please don’t take it amiss that I’m speculating. You see, despite the fact that I grew up in Åland, a tiny group of islands with its own exotic stamps, and despite the fact that I actually know at least three people, who have designed a number of these stamps, I happen to be one of those peculiar fellows who doesn’t care if the next Åland commemorative stamp features a tick or one of the fathers of the nation. But I am curious of those who do care. That is why I asked.
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