The Czech Post, Issuing and Commercial Service
Department - POSTFILA has placed in service on June 28th, 2000 a postcard
with an imprinted cachet honoring the first anniversary of the philatelic
on-line magazine JAPHILA - http://www.japhila.cz/,
which provides objective information on Czech stamps, regular and
commemorative cancellations and other information. Besides in Czech
and English, information is also presented in German, French and Slovak.
The author of the cachet is Martin Cinovsky of Slovakia. The Czech
Post utilized a postcard design intended for use with additional cachets.
The postcard has an imprinted denomination of 5 Kc. Pictured to the left
is a composition containing a globe, stylized postage stamps, a post horn
and the symbol @. Below the illustration are the logos of the Czech
Post and the firm JAPHILA with the addresses of the web sites. The cachet
is produced by means of multicolored offset printing.
The postcard will be sold in the sales offices of POSTFILA, to
subscribers, and through the sales offices of the firm Jan Palovsky -
SLOVFILA, Prague.
The sales price of the uncanceled postcard is 11 Kc, and with a single
regular cancel 11.30 Kc. The postcard is valid for postal use
from June 28th, 2000 to recall.
