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Top 10 most important postage stamps 2011

More than enough important stamps were issued in the year 2010. According to the already established tradition, StampNews.com picked the most interesting among them from the perspective of the website's editorial team. 2010 was proclaimed International Year of Biodiversity by the United Nations, that's why many last year's stamps were dedicated to this event. Among this variety StampNews.com singled out the set issued directly by the U.N. postal administration – UNPA.

However, this time the first place is kept by the French stamps issued to support the victims of the destructive earthquake in Haiti. The rating also contains stamps from New Zealand, Switzerland, Denmark, Romania; many are marked by the extraordinary design but simultaneously have a socially significant orientation which allowed their entering in the list of the most important stamps of 2010.

Many stamps of this rating are somehow dedicated to children, health and medicine. But let's keep succession.

The South African National Commemorative Stamp 2010 with the Taxi hand signs and two First Day Cover (FDC) envelopes, were launched at the Standard Bank Art Gallery on 29 January 2010. The stamps included the taxi hand signs and the equivalent sign for a blind person on each stamp offering readability to blind taxi commuters. The process of thermography was used for the raised surface for the blind signs on the stamps where sand was used as part of this process. In a ceremony held at Filadelfia, a school in Shoshonguwe near Pretoria for blind and physically challenged scholars, sand was collected from the rose garden on the school grounds and was used on the stamp.  The thermographic procedure, therefore, ensured that a particular ‘other’ from an little known geographic location could be recorded in history through a simple posting of a letter.