In France the
national postal company La Poste has named some 300 post offices as a Bureau philatélique in 2016. There
customers can buy the recent French stamps at all windows (there is not one specific
philatelic window). Also available are stamps of Saint Pierre and Miquelon,
Andorra, UNESCO and Council of Europe. A special postmark ('grand format
illustré') is available. The post offices with this service can be recognized
at a large display case. There is no sign on the post office doors.
Blagnac is a
municipality in the department of Haute-Garonne in the south of France. It has
circa 24.000 inhabitants and is part of the urban community of Greater Toulouse.
Blagnac is best known for having the main office of Airbus, the European civil aircraft
manufacturer.
The stamp I
chose for the envelope is an airmail stamp from 2006 that features the Airbus
380, that is built in Blagnac. Although the stamp has a value higher than the
international postal tariff, it is the only Blagnac stamp that France has
issued.
The envelope was
very neatly postmarked, but unfortunately three days later it went through a
machine that left its mark on the envelope. Apparently that not only happens in
Germany, Britain and the United States.
Date sent: 4 May
2017
Date postmark:
12 May 2017
Date received: 17
May 2017
Number of days: 13
Envelope in
collection: 63
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