Swiss Post unveils special stamp for Ice Hockey World Championships
Swiss Post has issued a special stamp to honour the Ice Hockey World Championships in Switzerland. This is printed on transparent chalk paper for the first time and is intended to be reminiscent of an ice rink.
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The World Championships are returning to “our ice hockey-crazy country”, Swiss Post wrote in a press release on Thursday. The Ice Hockey World Championships will be held in Zurich and Fribourg May 15-31.
The special stamp is intended to honour this event. It’s been 17 years since the last time the event was held in the country. The chalk paper features an ice hockey puck on a white field with the typical red and blue lines, as well as a cut stick.
New technology against counterfeiting
At the same time as launching this special stamp, Swiss Post said it was launching a pilot project to better recognise counterfeit stamps. In four letter centres, it is testing better identification with a so-called data matrix code on the “vine leaf” and “mushroom” stamps.
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This code would no longer authenticate the graphic features of the stamps, but rather the codes on them directly. This increases protection against counterfeiting because each code is only assigned once.
Switzerland is thus joining other European countries that already use this technology. The production, import and use of counterfeit stamps can be prosecuted in Switzerland.
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