The national courier of the Philippines, the Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) announced Monday December 30, 2013 that it has issued special Year of the Horse stamps to welcome the Chinese New Year.
PHLPost made the following official statement to the media:
“The public can now start welcoming the Year of the Horse with the PHLPost’s recently released Chinese New Year stamps,” it said in a statement.
“The Year of the Horse stamps, each measuring 40mm X 30mm, were printed by Amstar Co. Inc. The stamps were done by PHLPost in-house layout artists Jose Antonio A. Jayme and Jan Michael A. Manuel,” it said.
The Special Year of the Horse stamps were priced at P10 and P30, it has been released since December 2, 2013. There are more than 7,000 souvenir sheets with P80 price tag each were released by the agency.
PHLPost added further on their statement that “People born in the Year of the Horse are extremely animated, active and energetic,” PHLPost said.
The Chinese New Year will begin this coming January 31, 2014, the date was also declared as one of the special non-working holiday for the year 2014. The stamps and souvenir sheet and official first day covers are now available at all PHLPost Post Shop and Post Offices nationwide.
