150 Years of Government Post Cards

The whole world is celebrating 150 Years of birth of Post cards.  The first Government Postcard was born on October 1st 1869 in Austria.  Cheap and effective way to express messages and advertise.

Photo taken from Wikepedia

Postcrossers, members of  Postcrossing community, the largest forum for exchanging Post cards is also celebrating around the world with special postcards designed for the event.  Below you can see the Indian postcrosser's version of the card.

Shantipex 2019

India and various countries are celebrating 150th Anniversary of Birth of Mahatma Gandhi, from 2018 October 2nd to 2019 October 2nd.  India Post has issued a Miniature sheets and stamps to commemorate the event and conducting various philatelic exhibitions and issuing philatelic materials to honour Father of our Nation "Gandhiji".  One such celebrations happened at Coimbatore, the Manchester of Southern India.  During the Shantipex Philatelic exhibition, India post Coimbatore PB had issued Postcrossing Meetup cards in 4 designs.A Postcrossing meetup was also held at the Exhibition venue.

India China Meetup Card

World Coconut Day - 2nd September

The APCC is the Asian Pacific Coconut Community, having headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia.  It was founded on 2nd September 1969 and on 6th, September Indonesia, India, and the Philippines signed up. They designated September 2, the formation day as World Coconut Day to create awareness about farming coconut trees, its benefits and the latest technology related to it, and export opportunities.  Now there are about eighteen coconut-producing member countries from the Asia and Pacific region including two associate Members of Kenya and Jamaica in APCC.

The coconut tree's various parts are useful in many ways.  The veins of the leaves are used to produce brooms, the branches are used to make hut tops, and fans, coconut fibers are used to make ropes and mats, and oil is used in cooking,  cosmetics, and medicines.  Its fibrous husk, when burned, repels mosquitoes.

Marco Polo encountered the coconut on his travels to Sumatra and refers to it in his writing as "nux indica," or "Indian nut". In 2000 Coconut Water has become a popular drink in the west.

Below MS was issued by India Post on 8th January 2018