Finland’s most popular comic Fingerpori gets its own stamps. Designing the stamps was an interesting challenge for Pertti Jarla. "The Fingerpori comics are usually comic strips with three images, but in this case, I had to make both a picture and a verbal joke fit into one small stamp. It took me a while to adjust to this. I made about 15 sketches that were used to create the five final stamps," Jarla says.
The stamps feature the Fingerpori character Heimo Vesa in several roles, and Rivo-Riitta makes a comment in one stamp in her straightforward manner.
According to Jarla, Posti fits well with Fingerpori’s retro-inspired world, and it has been featured in many of the comic strips alongside the police and hospital, for example. “For humor-related reasons, Fingerpori’s official services usually work quite sluggishly – this also applies to Posti.”
Pertti Jarla uses Posti’s parcel services the most. "Nowadays, I mostly buy things online. Instead of picking up some radio parts at the store, it is more convenient to order them to my home or to the nearest parcel locker. Last time, Posti delivered the author copies of the latest Fingerpori book directly to my hallway."
