COVER N. 432 - ICELAND

Postmark: Kópavogur Islandpóstur 14.03.2024 

Posted on the 14th March; received on the 30th March 2024

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Iceland, the land where trees were swapped by waterfalls, black crystal beaches, permanent white, lava blankets, aggressive vulcanoes... all of an immense beauty, but all of them a reminder that nature is the king, and we, Man, the subjects.

Takk fyrir, Steinunn.

On May 2020  Iceland Post informed that they would no longer issue stamps, in order to cut back expenses. Luckily they did not live to their word :-) and last year a four stamp set was issued to celebrate the 150 years of the first Iceland stamp.

Let's hope this is a recurring trend for I, for one, can always do with beautiful flora stamps as the ones on this cover, especially that  of the common seal (Phoca vituylina) issued on 28JAN2010 as part of a 2 stamp set (5 and 220 Króna) dedicated to Seals.

The 50g (I presume this to be used on domestic letters up to 50 grams) is a single stamp issue, dated of 29OCT2020, and it features a photograph of a mink (Mustela vison).

The postmark hails from the city of Kópavogur, Iceland's second most populated town, part of the greater Reykjavik region.