We care

Cover destroyed (partially!)

Today I've received this printed apologies request by the US Postal Service! It was my first time.

Is it common for you to get this? Or you just don't care that they care?

2009 International Women's Day

2009 International Women's Day

When we think of women we immediately think of our loved ones: wife, sister, mother, etc... or if not... we at least think of the most famous kiss in the world!

But never forget that not everything is heavenly when it regards to women around the world... here are some Global Issues ... (more details here)

* Females in developing countries on average carry 20 litres of water per day over 6 km
* Globally women account for the majority of people aged over 60 and over 80
* Pregnant women in Africa are 180 times more likely to die than in Western Europe
* 530,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth each year
* World population hit 6,872,741,131 on 1 January 2009
* Of 1.2 billion people living in poverty worldwide, 70% are women
* 80% of the world's 27 million refugees are women
* Women own around only 1% of the world's land
* AIDS sees women's life expectancy of 43 in Uganda and Zambia
* 5 people are added to the world's population every 2 seconds
* Women are 2/3 of the 1 billion+ illiterate adults who have no access to basic education

And you? How do you treat women?

Pink Floyd

Postal authorities, leave those stamp collectors alone.
Hey, postal authorities, leave those stamp collectors alone!
All in all youre just another stamp collector in the wall.
All in all youre just another stamp collector in the wall.

STOP

It's time to say STOP to the high number of stamp sets that the postal authorities issue every year around the world....

Hey, postal authorities, leave us alone!

2009 Darwin

"The year 2009 marks two fundamental anniversaries in the fields of biology and modern science: 200 years since the birth of the English naturalist Charles Darwin and 150 years since the publication of his seminal work, On the Origin of Species." read more here.

Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life. (in WIKI)

Issue date:
2009 / 02 / 12

Corals

Hello!

Today I'll show you a registered cover sent from Tuvalu! Do you know where it is located?

Well... according to WIKI... Tuvalu is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia.

Interesting , isn't it? Not common at least!

On the cover you can see 8 stamps belonging to the 2006 - Definitives: Corals 12v. (complete set bellow).

Take care y'all!!!!

January 2009

Hello Fellow Collectors,

Today I'll present you the new Portuguese stamps issued in January 2009!

IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN PORTUGUESE HISTORY AND CULTURE

Issue:
2009 / 01 / 27

Stamps:
2 x €0,32
Painter Henrique Pousão (1859 – 1884)
Writer Soeiro Pereira Gomes (1909-1949)

Format:
40 x 30,6 mm - 30,6 x 40mm

Perforation:
13 x Cross of Christ

THE FIRST 10 YEARS OF THE EURO

1 January 2009 marked the 10th anniversary of the creation of the euro, one of the most significant landmarks of the European project and modern history.

Issue:
2009 / 01 / 28

Stamps:
€0,47 - 230 000
€1,00 - 245 000


Format:
40 x 30,6 mm

Perforation:
13 x Cross of Christ

Portugal - Stamp Release Program

Here is the gigantic Portuguese Stamp Release Program f0r 2009!

HISTORY AND CULTURE
100 Years of the Birth of Soeiro Pereira Gomes
150 Years of the Birth of Henrique Pousão

PORTUGUESE THEATRE
100 Years of the Birth of António Pedro

DATES OF HISTORY
800 Years of Instituição da Ordem dos Frades Menores Capuchinhos (Franciscanos)
900 Years of the Birth of D. Afonso Henriques

THEMATICS
African inheritance in Portugal
Palácio de Belém
Palace of Belém
Portugal 2010 (100 Years of the Republic)
The Stamps and the Senses (it will include a stamp in Braille in the 200 years of the birth of Luis Braille)
The Jazz in Portugal
Lusitano horse
Traditional bread of the Portuguese Regions
10 Years of the Introduction of the Euro
Here it has Stamp (For popular voting chosen thematic "Science in Portugal")
School Mail
Christmas 2009

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
Europa 2009 – Astronomy
Joint Issue with Turkey (ceramics)
Joint Issue with Iran (Eagles)
Joint Issue with Brazil (100 Years of the birth of Carmen Miranda)

DEFINITIVE STAMPS
Urban Public transports - 3rd group

AZORES
Lagoons
Europa 2009 - Astronomy

MADEIRA
Tropical and Subtropical fruits of Madeira
Europa 2009 - Astronomy

ATM stamps
Recycling
Healthful food/Promotion of the Physical Activity