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150 years compulsory school and the Paris Olympics: Swiss Post honours the anniversary and Olympic Summer Games
Swiss Post’s second stamp issue in 2024 features colourful and fun designs. The traditional or digital stamps will be available at all branches and in the Swiss Post online shop from 2 May 2024.
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School – for some it seems to last forever, for others it just flies by. Compulsory education has been enshrined in the Federal Constitution for a long time – since 1874. The 150th anniversary of compulsory school is being celebrated this year. A colourful stamp in the style of a hidden picture book was created for the anniversary: it shows a lively playground with children and young people playing and socialising.
Olympic Summer Games in Paris
The Summer Olympics are being held in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. To mark the occasion, a stamp depicting lots of movement was created. Five of the 32 sports are depicted on it. The venue of the 33rd Summer Olympics is denoted by the dominant colours blue, white and red and the Eiffel Tower. Paris is hosting the Games for the third time.
Garfield in Swiss cinemas
No major US production has been dubbed into Swiss German for over 20 years. This spring, the world’s most famous cat can be seen in cinemas – he even speaks Swiss German in cinemas in German-speaking Switzerland. For this reason, Swiss Post is dedicating two stamps to the film “The Garfield Movie”.
Information on other designs in the current stamp issue and more details about the new stamps are available in the latest edition of the collector’s magazine “Focus on stamps” or at swisspost.ch/stamps.
Designs in the 2/2024 stamp issue – available and valid from 2 May 2024:
- Summer – “Barbecue with friends” stamp at CHF 1.00 and “Water relaxation” at CHF 1.20
- Garfield – “Baby Garfield” stamp at CHF 1.20 and “Garfield” at CHF 1.20
- EUROPA – Underwater fauna and flora – “Lake Thun: Balchen, freshwater mussels and stoneworts” at CHF 1.20 and “Doubs: Zingel asper, white-clawed crayfish and common water moss” at CHF 1.20
- 150 years compulsory school – stamp at CHF 1.20
- 100 years Einsiedeln World Theatre – stamp at CHF 1.00
- 200 years Swiss Shooting Sport Federation (SSV) – stamp at CHF 1.20
- Pro Patria – The Fifth Switzerland – “Cultural ties” stamp at CHF 1.00 (+0.50) and “Sense of belonging” stamp at CHF 1.20 (+0.60)
- 100 years Swiss Agricultural Technology – stamp at CHF 1.20
- 100 years La Caquerelle–Lausanne special flight – stamp at CHF 1.20
- Olympic Summer Games Paris 2024 – stamp at CHF 1.20
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- Summer – Barbecue with friends (JPG 4072 KB)
- Summer – Water relaxation (JPG 3317 KB)
- Garfield – Baby Garfield (JPG 4007 KB)
- Garfield – Garfield (JPG 4303 KB)
- EUROPA – Underwater fauna and flora / Lake Thun: Balchen, freshwater mussels and stoneworts (JPG 5278 KB)
- EUROPA – Underwater fauna and flora / Doubs: Zingel asper, white-clawed crayfish and common water moss (JPG 5220 KB)
- 150 years compulsory school (JPG 4439 KB)
- 100 years Einsiedeln World Theatre (JPG 824 KB)
- 200 years Swiss Shooting Sport Federation (SSV) (JPG 4072 KB)
- Pro Patria – The Fifth Switzerland / Cultural ties (JPG 3691 KB)
- Pro Patria – The Fifth Switzerland / Sense of belonging (JPG 3830 KB)
- 100 years Swiss Agricultural Technology (JPG 3091 KB)
- 100 years La Caquerelle−Lausanne special flight (JPG 5095 KB)
- Olympic Summer Games Paris 2024 (JPG 3773 KB)
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Swiss Post Media Unit, +41 58 341 00 00, presse@swisspost.ch