France
France is the winner of the 2024 Best Europa stamp contest organized by PostEurop. Monaco finished second and Azerbaijan (stamp from the souvenir-sheet) is third.
- FRANCE
- MONACO
- AZERBAIJAN
As written earlier on this blog, PostEurop changed the rules for this contest. 3 voting panels (public, jury and operators) are selecting the best Europa stamp. The results of these three panels are compiled and gives an overall winner.
France wins the overall contest and won also the postal operators voting :
Public voting :
1. Turkey
2. Armenia
3. Azerbaijan
Jury voting :
1. Jersey
2. Monaco
3. Cyprus
Postal operators voting :
1. France
2. Azerbaijan
3. Italy
Consolidated result of all three panels - top 10 :
1. France
2. Monaco
3. Azerbaijan
4. Cyprus
5. Armenia
= Poland
7. Jersey
= Turkey
9. Portugal
10. Georgia
Note that Belarus and Russia were excluded of this contest due to their aggression of Ukraine.
PostEurop informs us also that the Dutch Underwater Federation
(Nederlandse Onderwatersport Bond) awarded a special diploma to the 2024 Europa stamp from the Czech Rep., selecting it as their favourite.
Regarding the stamp,
the NOB said: ”This stamp represents the variety of all the flora and
fauna there is in the waters. The similarity between all the creatures
visible on the stamp and the ones that exist in the Dutch waters, is
big. Besides that, the stamp itself is full of detail of all the
different plants, fish, reptiles and invertebrates shown on the stamp.”
