Stamp collection 2025: a voyage through time and innovation

Here are five compelling reasons not to miss it:

• Pink Ribbon: A postage stamp dedicated to the fight against breast cancer to encourage people to get screened and support patients. That support will be clearly displayed on envelopes from October.
• 600 years of the KU Leuven & UCLouvain: Two major academic institutions celebrated on a sheetlet featuring the “Sedes sapientiae”.
• Pi: The postage stamp to mark Pi Day is… round – in honour of this irrational number that all students know.
• Smurfs and sustainable development: Those good-natured blue humanoids the Smurfs, great ambassadors of Belgian culture, show their social engagement in a playful way to promote the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
• Short and video game: In association with the DAE cluster at Howest, interactive postage stamps with QR codes to access new productions: a short film and a video game created by talented students.

Royal portrait:

The permanent King Philippe postage stamps, the most well-known postage stamp among Belgians, will be updated in 2025 with a new engraving of His Majesty. The new portrait will be set against a background of pop colours. The change adds a contemporary quality while preserving the solemnity of the royal portrait.

The new collection is coming:

Looking forward to seeing the issues in the 2025 collection for yourself? The sheetlets and sheets will be available to buy in the bpost eShop on the following dates:

• 27 January 2025:
  • Digital Arts and Entertainment: Educating future talent in games, VFX and 3D animation;
  • 100th anniversary of the first flight to Congo;
  • 600 years of KU Leuven and UCLouvain;
  • 100 years of the franking machine;
  • Smurfs together for a better world.

• 7 April 2025:
  • Archaeology (Europa issue);
  • the Eastern Cantons;
  • Belgian inventors: Ernest Solvay.

• 16 June 2025:
  • Bruegel and Flemish proverbs;
  • Iconic banknotes;
  • 20 years of postcrossing.

• 25 August 2025:
  • Piet Stockmans;
  • the numerical value Pi;
  • Places of Hasselt;
  • the permanent King Philippe postage stamp.

• 20 October 2025:
  • Pink Ribbon;
  • Terrestrial molluscs;
  • Microfauna;
  • 40 years of Buzin’s birds;
  • the Christmas stamp.

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