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![]() Click here for higher resolution image | Date: 2010 Occasion: 2010 Winter Olympics,2010,Vancouver,Canada Width: 380 mm Height: 240 mm Location: Ice Hockey Volume XIX Stamp ID = 6182 Business envelope for Purolator, a Canadian delivery company (similar to UPS in the US or DHL in Germany) that is 91% owned by Canada Post. Canada Post was one of the Official sponsors of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Kon Sokolyk wrote an article in the Winter 2009 issued of the "Journal of Sports Philately" about this envelope. See the entire article here and visit Sports Philatelists International here for more sports on stamps information. From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page Canada (1851-) Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 29,123,194. An independent state within the British Commonwealth, occupying the northern part of North America.Courtesy of Kon Sokolyk. |