Philately

Canada's postal service on Nov. 25 celebrated the 60-year writing career of "The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood by featuring her image on a stamp.

An 81-year-old philatelist living in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri has said he has collected over 200,000 stamps in 50 years.

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"I have every kind of stamp. I look after them neatly," Fevzi Ablak, a pensioner, told Demirören News Agency on Aug. 19.

The 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child was marked on 18.11.2019 with the validation of a postal-philatelic edition.

The PTT (Turkish Postal Service) Stamp Museum exhibits 8,375 stamps, which have been printed since 1863, as well as the philately products of 192 countries.

The PTT (Turkish Postal Service) Stamp Museum exhibits 8,375 stamps, which have been printed since 1863, as well as the philately products of 192 countries.

The Civil Protection Authority said on Friday that the suspicious envelopes sent to universities around the country this week did not contain any toxic substances, only an industrial adhesive identified in the first letter.

Samples from the letters were analyzed by the General Chemical State Laboratory in Athens.

Bomb disposal experts were dispatched on Friday to a branch of Hellenic Post (ELTA) in Pyschico, near central Athens, after employees there deemed an envelope addressed to Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos to be suspicious, but further inspection determined it was harmless. 

According to sources, the envelope was delivered to Pavlopoulos's home in Psychico at 12.30 p.m.

Postage stamps, old coins and football cards are some of the more usual items gathered by those interested in collecting items as a hobby.

Stamp collectors, also known as philatelists, are still attending stamp exchange events every week with stamps they have been collecting since childhood. 

Post stamps made of 24-carat gold were displayed for the first time in Bulgaria on Friday at the International Fair in Plovdiv during the opening of the exhibition Bulkolekto 2016.

The unique collection contains 22 items - the first post stamps printed in the 19th century in England, Bulgaria, the USA, Russia, Monaco, Switzerland, Norway etc.