2022Crocuses - First Day Cover

18 years ago, on the first day of March and Mărțișor (March Amulet), Romfilatelia was established, as the only authorized institution of the Romanian state, vested to make and put into circulation all Romanian postage stamps. It was the year 2004 when, in Bucharest, the 23rd Congress of the Universal Postal Union took place, which has Romania as one of its founding members. It hit the road with a new, trainee team, with the clear determination to establish its credentials as an entity that would change habits, concepts and approaches, succeeding that in the very year of its establishment, 2004, to achieve, after almost four decades, the second and the third joint issue with Belgium and the People’s Republic of China, respectively, stepping decently into the world of international philately (the first joint issue, in 1965, was about the Romanian-Yugoslav collaboration for the construction of the Iron Gates hydro-power complex). Continuing the series of joint issues, Romfilatelia summed-up in its portfolio the collaboration with 31 countries, to which were added the UN Postal Administration and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.