Best Europa stamp competition 2024
PostEurop is proud to present the 2024 “Underwater Flora & Fauna” EUROPA Stamps entries. Till 9 September 2024, you can vote for your most beautiful EUROPA Stamp. Click on the images to see the full size.
PostEurop is proud to present the 2024 “Underwater Flora & Fauna” EUROPA Stamps entries. Till 9 September 2024, you can vote for your most beautiful EUROPA Stamp. Click on the images to see the full size.
Luxembourg (stamp 2/2) is the winner of the 2022 Best Europa stamp contest organized by PostEurop. Finland (stamp 1/2) finished second and Liechtenstein (stamp 2/2) is third.
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.
Luxembourg wins the overall contest in a deserved way by winning 2 of the 3 voting panels :
Public voting :
1. Finland
2. Georgia
3. Turkey
Jury voting :
1. Luxembourg
2. Liechtenstein
3. Switzerland
Postal operators voting :
1. Luxembourg
2. Finland
3. Åland
Consolidated result of all three panels - top 10 :
1. Luxembourg
2. Finland
3. Liechtenstein
4. Croatia
= Georgia
= Åland
7. Azerbaijan
= Germany
9. Switzerland
= Turkey
Note that Belarus and Russia were excluded of this contest due to their aggression of Ukraine.
Armenia withdrew for "technical" reasons.
Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2021
The winner of the 1st edition was Moldova ; Ukraine won the 2nd edition and Denmark won last year.
Announce on the Austrian post philatelic bulletin of March 2022 and on the Austrian post LinkedIn account !
Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2021
Results of GROUP 4:
Those top 4 countries go to the Big Final.
Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2021
Results of GROUP 3:
Those top 4 countries go to the Big Final.
Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2021
Results of GROUP 1:
Those top 4 countries go to the Big Final.
Poland
The 2021 Best Europa stamp has been announced by PostEurop in this press release.
Poland is the winner of the 2021 Best Europa stamp contest organized by PostEurop. Åland finished second and Ukraine (2nd stamp) is third.
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.
Poland wins the overall contest in a deserved way by finishing in the top 3 of the three voting panels :
Public voting :
1. Turkey
2. Armenia
3. Poland
Jury voting :
1. Germany
2. Poland
= Norway
Postal operators voting :
1. Poland
2. Åland
3. Hungary
Consolidated result of all three panels - top 10 :
1. Poland
2. Åland
3. Ukraine
4. Armenia
= Hungary
= Norway
7. Germany
= Netherlands
= Spain
= Turkey
New rules from this year for electing the Best Europa stamp ! Coming into force in 2021 !
A single winner will be chosen resulting from a combination of 3 different voting panels, each having the same weight !
1. General public votes on digital images of the stamps via a dedicated PostEurop website, 9 May - 9 September
2. Postal operators votes on digital images of the stamps via a dedicated PostEurop intern website. Each company votes for 3 preferred stamps, except its own stamp.
3. Jury voting on physical stamps. Each jury member votes for his/her 3 preferred stamps.
The 10 best placed stamps in each of the 3 voting panels are allocated the following number of points (Eurovision Song Contest system) :
1st = 12 points ; 2nd = 10 points ; 3rd = 8 points ; 4th = 7 points ; 5th = 6 points ; 6th = 5 points ; 7th = 4th points ; 8th = 3 points ; 9th = 2 points and 10th = 1 point.
The points from the 3 voting panels are added up to obtain the overall winner and the two runners-up.
Note : only the country having send his digital and physical stamp to PostEurop can win the contest !
The Best Europa stamp 2021 will be announced during PostEurop's plenary assembly on the 6th of October 2021.
Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2020
The winner of the 1st edition was Moldova and Ukraine won the 2nd edition last year.
Announce on the Danish post website !
Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2020
Results of GROUP 4:
Those top 4 countries go to the Big Final.
2nd – Faroe Islands (17.- DKK value)
= - Switzerland (top stamp)
= - Ukraine
3rd - Germany (stamp from the block)
This year's Jury was composed as follows (clockwise from the top left) :
• Marjan Osvald, Pošta Slovenije, PostEurop MAC Chair, Slovenia
• Jana Vlachová, PostEurop (not part of the jury)
• Botond Szebeny, PostEurop's Secretary General, Hungary (Chair of the jury)
• Olaf Neumann & Stefan Klein, Stamp designers, Germany
• Emile Espen, Post Luxembourg, PostEurop SPWG Vice-Chair, Luxembourg
• Jürgen Haepers, Blog "Europa-stamps", Switzerland
• Guy Coutant, Royal Belgian Academy of Philately, Belgium
• Eric Contesse, Blog "Timbré du Jura", France
Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2020
Results of GROUP 3:
Those top 4 countries go to the Big Final.
Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2020
Results of GROUP 2:
Those top 4 countries go to the Big Final.
Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2020
Results of GROUP 1:
Those top 4 countries go to the Big Final.
"A new record number of votes was received, marking a new milestone with over 38 thousand votes reached!"