Activities

The presents for the members of the working group ArGe Baltikum on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the group have finally been chosen.

Michael Wienecke and Jaan Roots presented recent acquisitions with special franking and routes from Estonia, some as far as Northern Rhodesia (via Brindisi / Italy). Olaf Hoffmann showed stamps from the 1920 Conference of Baltic Foreign Ministers in Bulduri (German: Bilderlingshof, now a district of Jūrmala) / Latvia, with Thomas Löbbering explaining the history behind them.

Torsten Berndt presented an exciting and still unresolved postal matter, which, however, does not concern a postal institution in the Baltic States, but in Germany: on December 27, 2024, after the Christmas rush, he sent a package of invitations to the to the special postmark office in Berlin, where they were to be cancelled and sent on December 31, 2024, the last day of the 85-cent postage rate for domestic mail and also the last day of use of a certain type of cancellation machine.

However, according to DHL tracking, the package remained in transit for several days and did not reach the special postmark office until January 3, 2025. Questions remain unanswered: will the stamps still be accepted with 85 cents postage (similar to 'from the mailbox')? Will the package be cancelled with the postmark of December 31, 2024 ? Or will it be returned for additional postage? After all, the DHL customer is only entitled to have his item transported, not to have certain deadlines met...

DHL tracking shows that the package (containing the invitations to the general meeting) was left behind the date of the 85-cent postage limit for domestic mail (Dec 31, 2024).

Want to see the solution to the postal delivery thriller live? Then join us for our next video chat!

Our monthly video chat, where anyone with an interest in Baltium philately is welcome, takes place on every first Saturday of the month at 17 h CET (more technical information on this here).

Next date: February 1, 2025

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