{"id":273750,"date":"2020-12-03T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/?p=273750"},"modified":"2020-12-04T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:40:11","slug":"morocco-wins-the-2020-pumed-philatelic-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/morocco-wins-the-2020-pumed-philatelic-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco wins the 2020 PUMed Philatelic Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morocco wins the 2020 PUMed Philatelic Contest! On the 13th of July 2020, The Postal Union for the Mediterranean launched its new international contest on the occasion of its annual philatelic issue \u201cThe Traditional Mediterranean Gastronomy\u201d. Almost 5100 votes have been registered from 47 countries from the 13th of July to the 13th of October 2020. countries, second in 9 and thrid in other 1, the Maroccan stamp about \u00ab The tagine TAGRA \u00bb outstrips the other Maroccan stamp \u00ab The BISSARA \u00bb and the nice and original Lebanese bloc of 4 stamps \u00ab EUROMed Feuillet Special Edition 2020 \u00bb respectively second and third among the voters choice. To illustrate this theme, Poste Maroc has chosen to represent in this stamp the tagine \u201cTagra\u201d, a fish dish, originally adopted by fishermen, and later by villagers in northwest Morocco. Cooked fish is mainly composed of sardines or anchovies. The dish is named after the led terracotta container, oval or round, with no lid. The Postal Union for the Mediterranean (PUMed) was established in Rome, on the 15th March 2011, by 14 Postal Operators across the Mediterranean Region under the Universal Postal Union (UPU) umbrella. Today, PUMed counts up to 23 members. It is mainly composed of designated operators which are members of two Restricted Unions:\u2022 Arab Permanent Postal Commission: (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Syrian Arab Republic & Tunisia); \u2022 PostEurop: (Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey). Philately is a passion which has historically promoted communications. Nowadays, in a digital age we constantly look for ways to redynamise it because there are still plenty of stamp fans all over the world! Eager to develop and to promote the products issued by its members within the union, the PUMed has significantly enriched its online universe since 2018 https:\/\/euromed-postal.org\/Philately<\/a> .\u00ab Internet is a place that allows us to transmit the passions that drive us \u00bb \u2013 for stamps fans and collectors, even if it might look like a strange new universe to some, it extends philatelist new worldwide communication vectors.Creation: Mohammed ELOUANTIPrinter: Philaposte \u2013 FrancePrinting: rotogravure Stamp format: 40 mm MAD (International) Post Maroc.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morocco wins the 2020 PUMed Philatelic Contest!On the 13th of July 2020, The Postal Union for the Mediterranean launched its new international contest on the occasion of its annual philatelic issue \u201cThe Traditional Mediterranean Gastronomy\u201d. Almost 5100 votes have been registered from 47 countries from the 13th of July to the 13th of October 2020.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[460,317],"class_list":["post-273750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philately","tag-morocco","tag-317"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}