Here I wish to share beautiful Postal stationery issued by Vanuatu Post. These are colorful Aerogrammes depicting Birds and Fishes. These aerogrammes are quite suitable for thematic collection on birds and fishes. Vanuatu Post has also issued a set of 4 stamps on 23 March 2011 featuring famous Coffee from Vanuatu. The stamps are wonderful showing a variety of coffee flavours. The First Day Cancellation is equally good showing a hot coffee cup. The designs of the stamps are very nice and on first glimpse , the stamps give aroma of hot Tanna Coffee from Vanuatu….Just enjoy a nice cup of coffee through today’s Post… Also read thrilling details of Underwater Post Office of Vanuatu…This for all for Today…… Till Next Post….Have a Great Time !!
Tanna Coffee – The Taste of Vanuatu…
Date of Issue – 23 March - 2011
The Tanna Coffee Development Company was established in Tanna in 1982, to assist Vanuatu soon after its independence. The process of famous Tanna Coffee begins with the hand picked cherries being processed at 35 pulperies on Tanna. The cherries are pulped, naturally fermented, washed, screened and sun-dried prior to transportation to the Dry Processing Factory. Here the dry skins are removed, 'green beans' graded according to size and then bagged ready for shipping to Port Vila. The coffee beans are then carefully roasted as part of the 25 steps in the process from the 'plantation to the cup'. Modern international standard packaging completes the process. Currently, all coffee is sold in roasted and packaged form through Tanna Coffee’s facility in Port Vila with 70% being distributed locally and the balance being exported overseas. The Roasting Factory has now been developed to cater for tourist visits.
Underwater Post Office of Vanuatu Post
Vanuatu Post’s Underwater Post Office, found just off Hideaway Island near Port Vila, has quickly become one of the busiest post offices for postcards in the world!
Visitors from around the world have literally donned their mask and snorkels, postcards in hand to experience the world’s first underwater post office.
And they have not been disappointed. The Post Office is only 50 metres offshore and at just three metres below the surface, is very accessible to the young and young at heart. Thousands of visitors have posted one of the special waterproof postcards available in Vanuatu; these cards are collected regularly by one of Vanuatu Post’s four trained scuba divers and “cancelled” underwater with an embossing cachet. Mail that requires a normal Underwater Post Office date stamp is cancelled in the Main Post Office.
Since opening in 2003, the underwater post office has received an estimated 100,000 visitors. The underwater branch is manned daily for usually about an hour, longer on cruise ship days or with demand.
“I love working at the underwater branch,” says VPL’s Samuel Robert. “It’s great fun and really pleasing to see so many visitors each day who cannot believe their eyes!”
Vanuatu Post has released two stamp issues commemorating the world’s first underwater post office.
