FINLAND – Cover from Expoo, Finland to Braga, Portugal.

Cover with stamps from the issues ‘Rain or Shine?’, ‘Posti Green’ and 'Autumn’ posted on January, 18 2011.

(Special thanks to Kari Lehtinen)

Rain or Shine?

Stamps

Technical Details

Date of Issue: 27 February 2008

Values: 5 1^st Class stamps

Subject: Rain or Shine?

Designer:

Printer: Walsall Security Printers

Process: Offset

Size: 55.0 mm x 23.0 mm

Perforation: 12 x 12

Watermark:

Sheet:

Booklets: with 5 self-adhesive stamps

Post Green

Stamp

Five cents for the environment!
Light green stamp has been made taking care of the environment. The paper is 100 percent recyclable and the light green color is water-soluble.
The extra five cents is being used for building the first solar power plant in Finland, to compensate the emissions coming up because the deliveries.
The stamp is a part of the Itella Green programme - Zero emissions for deliveries.

Technical Details

Date of Issue: 4 May 2010

Values: 1st Class + 0.05€

Subject: Posti Green

Designer: Timo Berry ja Teemu Ollikainen

Printer: Thai British Security Printing Public Company ltd

Process: Offset

Size: 40.0 mm x 24.0 mm

Perforation: 15 x 15

Watermark:

Sheet: of 10 stamps

Autumn

Miniature sheet

We welcome the fall publishing a mini sheet of three self-adhesive stamps depicting a well-cooked crab, a pair of mallard and the king of the Northern forests - an elk! On the background there is a typical Finnish lake landscape.
To the hunter's stamp collection!
Graphic designer Asser Jaaro is well-known as a stamp designer. He works using traditional methods - a pen and paintbrush.

Technical Details

Date of Issue: 13 September 2010

Values: 1st Class

Subject: Rain or Shine?

Designer: Asser Jaaro

Printer: Joh Enschedé Security Printers

Process: Offset

Size: 35.0 mm x 30.0 mm

Perforation: 13 x 13

Watermark:

Sheet: Self-adhesive miniature sheet with the three designs