POSTCARD N.80 - HUNGARY

Postcrossing postcard sent on the 15th June; received on the 21st June

Postcard image: Senta, Serbia
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 rather different postcard, to use an apt characterising word. Thank you Szabó, for the opportunity of adding another country to the List.

Szabó tells me that although the postcard was posted from Hungary, the image on the front of his homemade circumeconomic postcard is of  his hometown of Senta, in the north of Serbia, a city of around 20,000 inhabitants which has this most amazing art noveau town hall building that is featured on the very small vintage photograph on the postcard that also contains the city's  coat of arms.

Built in 1913-1914 as the main administrative and commercial centre of Senta, the building has retained it's administrative functions and incidentally houses the local post office, so I read.

 

Stamps, left to right:

On 05MAY2021, Magyar Posta issue a  definitive stamp set  comprising five values (Belföld; Belföld elsőbbs; Európába; Belföld ajánlot and Európán kívülre, that is to say Domestic; Domestic priority; Europe; Domestic 2nd class and Outside Europe) themed on Postal history artefacts. My stamp is the Europe tariff and it shows a 19T truck from Magyar Posta.

A postcrossing stamp on a postcrossing postcard is the bee's knee! Hungary is one of the countries that over the years had issued stamps celebrating the brainchild of a fellow countryman - Paulo Magalhães - created in 2005 and that at the time of writing has 802,726 registered members in 206 different countries.

Hungary's Postcrossing stamp was issued on 02FEB2018 as a single stamp set with a face value of 120 Forints and it depicts  my good old friend Mr. Postman doing his delivery round.

The  postmark lets us know that the postcard was mailed from Hungary's capital, Budapest.