Best Europa stamp 2024

France

The 2024 Best Europa stamp has been announced by PostEurop in this press release.

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.

1. FRANCE
2. MONACO
3. 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.”