Communications Year

U.N. New York, Page 83.1 (BL-1)

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In 1983, the top two stamps were issued to commemorate the World Communications Year. It was meant to bring attention to the fact that inadequate communications is a hindrance to economic and social progress for many countries. It was the hope that a world communications network might be delveloped so that no one is isolated from the international community.

The world wide web was started six years later, and accessible by the public in 1993. Also, in the 1980s and early 1990s, email was made available to the public. In recent years, basic mobile telephones and communications services are sold at a low cost so that most people are now part of local and international communications. I don’t know how much the World Communications Year helped, but its goals were achieved eventually.

Note

The two stamps at the beginning of the second row are meant to bring attention to efforts for safer maritine activities. See the Secure Seas page for more information on that issue.

The two at the end of the same row are for the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development. See the Trade & Development page.

The pair on the third row are about the twenty-fifth anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human rights. There are many album pages about it, but to start see Human Rights Decree.

For information on the last stamp, see World Food.

Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description	comment
1.1	✓	392	World Communications Year	20c (jan 1983) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	393	World Communications Year	40c (jan 1983) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	394	Safety at Sea	20c (mar 1983) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	395	Safety at Sea	37c (mar 1983) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	397	Trade & Development	20c (jun 1983) comm., multicolor
2.4	✓	398	Trade & Development	28c (jun 1983) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	415	Human Rights	20c (dec 1983) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	416	Human Rights	40c (dec 1983) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	396	World Food Program	20c (apr 1983) comm., brown-carmine

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

• To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.

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