Sunday 1 November 2020

Three Cheers for Key Workers

 

1958: National Health (Design - Gerald M Trottier)

The perfect message for the times we are living through - "Health Guards the Nation". A shared endeavor and so was the stamp between Trottier, the designer, the portrait and picture engraved by Yves Baril and the lettering by John Marsh.  The nurse was the first living person to be portrayed on a Canadian stamp, alas I do not know her name, the essential but unknown front line worker. 

1965: Nursing Publicity Issue
Another nurse but this time with a patient and in happier times without PPE.  Oberschan, the village on the postmark, has no hospital but does have a ski station and might be a pleasant place in the Swiss mountains to hunker down for however many years the pandemic lasts.  The edifice is Wartau Castle.
1974: Centenary of Universal Postal Union

Rain, shine and pandemic the post never stopped and flowed through my letterbox, hurray for postal workers.

1986: Europa - Protection of Nature and Environment (Design Ole Knappe; Engraver Arne Kühlmann)

Another essential service out in all weathers whose personnel kept going, the refuse collector.

2020: Morocco United Against Covid19
 

 

Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - front line workers -  at See It On A Postcard



5 comments:

Bob Scotney said...

Pleased to see a nurse represented - but when will we see some stamps issued for these Covid times?

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viridian said...

The garbage man! (As we say here in the USA). Yes an essential front line worker.

Mail Adventures said...

I really like the Danish stamp!
For some strange reason, I didn't thought of postpeople as "key workers"... Of course they are!

violet s said...

I deliver newspapers and am also considered an essential worker (though I don't feel like one, but am glad people are still needing to read hard copies of the news)
It's interesting to see how nurse's uniforms change over the years

Joy said...

Yes Veridian officially they are called refuse collectors here but everyone refers to them as 'the bin men'.