Stamp day

Serbian post issues every year stamps on theme Stamp day. These stamps represent not only Serbian stamps history, but also history of the whole postal system and postal services in Serbia and the world. The first stamp day was celebrated in Austria in 1935 and the first stamp issue in Serbia, called Stamp day, was celebated in 1989.

2006        140 years of the first Serbian stamp

First Serbian stamp was showing Kingdom of Serbia coat of arms. Face value was 1 para (one hunderth part of dinar). On the top was written "K. S. POŠTA", which was short for Kraljevska srpska pošta, meaning "Royal Serbian Post".

2007        Eugen Derocco (1860-1944), first Serbian philatelist

2008        125 years of the first telephone in Serbia

      

 

2009        100 years of Michel catalog

2010        170 years of Serbian post

2011        Philatelic exibition BEOGRADFILA I

          

2012        75 years of the First earthly philatelic exibition (ZEFIB), Belgrade, 1937

2013        170 years of the first Postal law in Serbia

2014        Letter as a witness of time

The stamp shows a letter from 1868 that was sent from town Brza Palanka and it was adressed to Imperial and Royal Consulate of Austria in Belgrade.

     

2015        100 years of the "King Peter in the Battlefield in 1914" stamp issue

"King Peter in the Battlefield" stamp is important in history if Serbian philately. This is the first Serbian stamp where ruler is not presented in classical portrait. Also, photo of King Peter in the batllefield is the first photo of one king from the front line in WWI.

2016        60 years since the first EUROPA issue - the only time there were issued 2 Stamp day stamps

                               

2017       The first Serbian International reply coupon (IRC), 1917

2018        Radiogram

2019        150 years of the first postal card (in the world)

     

 

2020        First postmark in Serbia, 1840

2021        150 years since sending the first Serbian postcard

2022        150 years of Serbian philately rarity: Milanče tête-bêche stamps

       

2023        150 years of the first correspondence card in Serbia

2024        150 years since the establishment of the Universal Postal Union

Universal Postal Union (UPU) was established in September and October 1874 in Bern, on a congress where Principality of Serbia participated. The stamp depicts UPU monument in Bern, headquarters building of UPU in Bern and portrait of Mladen Ž. Radojković, Serbian representative who signed the Treaty on Establishment of the General Postal Union.