Owl Stamps spring 2020
Apr 24, 2020
This year Royal Dutch Post, Post NL, will release 4 set of stamps combined with matching greeting cards based on my designs. The first set of the year, released in March, consists of 3 owl stamps and 3 owl greeting cards. This set was available in shops all over Holland, could be ordered online and was also given away by PostNL as a thankyou gift to customers who placed an order online of 15 euros or more. In the article below you can read about the stamps in 'Collect magazine' (click on the image to see the full page). In the same magazine PostNL announced that my 2019 bird stamps had been chosen by readers for second place as one of the prettiest stamps in 2019.
Due to the bizarre COVID19 situation, lots of people are now sending greeting cards to their family and friends, since the situation is limiting people to visit each other. As a result the owl stamps have been sold out within a month after release, even before I was able to order them myself. Luckily I received a couple of designer sets and Willem was able to order a few sets online. To our surprise the stamps and cards Willem ordered and then send to his friends got a special meaning in relation to COVID19.
Willem ordered the sets to send 'the 'owl-card of wisdom' with a message to take care and stay in good health to some work related friends living in the most affected COVID19 area's in the Netherlands. To his amazement, the next day one of these friends send Willem a message, telling him that the card had arrived and lifted up his spirits just when he needed it the most. He wrote that he was suffering from COVID19 and was hardly able to text the message he just send. So not only had the card been send to the right person at the right time, the other two cards that were send to Willem's other friends on the same day, arrived more than a week later due to postal delays.
These sort of wondrous events never cease to amaze me and
show that my work has a miraculous life of it's own and effects -without me ever knowing about it- the lives of people I do not know.
