Slovenia's Black Lake in the Pohorje

From the outskirts of Ljubljana. The stamp sheet shows an image of the Black Lake in the Pohorje mountains in northeastern Slovenia. Silt at the bottom of the lake formed by decaying vegetation makes the water appear very dark, hence the name "Black Lake".

Slovenian Ballet 100th Anniversary

Selca, Solvenia

Selca is a small Solvenia village, north west of Ljubljana. The two stamps at the top are roses but I can't seem to find much about the one at the bottom. It's a charity stamp, for the Red Cross. I assume it's from this year. On the bottom is says "Solidarity Week", 1-7 November 2017.

Slovenia, Rio 2016

Ljubljana, Slovenia

New Stamps from Slovenia

Well, some of them weren't new but they were to me. I don't collect Slovenian stamps but Slovenia Post's website looked clean and was loaded with information and some of their stamps issues were of interest to me so I figured I'd check them out. You can not order online but there is a stocklist available that is very up to date (updated monthly or weekly or something like that). However I could find no order form online. So I wrote to them with a list of what I wanted and provided my credit card number. Within weeks I received a huge envelope with stamp bulletins from the past few quarters and my stamps sandwiched between some of the thickest cardstock I've ever seen come through the mail. There was no way these stamps were getting bent or damaged. Overall I was quite impressed.

Stamps from Slovenia Post are only available for purchase for one year after the issue date. And I discovered that foreign orders are not subject to the VAT which is include in the price of the stamps so my order was even cheaper than I had expected. There was a 2 Euro handling charge on my order by after seeing the VAT savings, I didn't think twice about it.