URU - 2012 - #030 - SERIE - TRAFFIC SAFETY

Uruguay - 2012 - Traffic Safety

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SERIE --- 28,00 EUR
STAMP 1 --- 1,00 EUR
STAMP 2 --- 5,00 EUR
STAMP 3 --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 4 --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 5 --- 6,00 EUR
STAMP 6 --- 9,00 EUR
STAMP 7 --- 10,00 EUR
STAMP 8 --- 14,00 EUR
BLOCK 1 --- 50,00 EUR
BLOCK 1 IN FOLDER --- 52,00 EUR
BLOCK 2 --- 60,00 EUR
BLOCK 2 IN FOLDER --- 62,00 EUR
BLOCK 3 --- 70,00 EUR
BLOCK 3 IN FOLDER --- 72,00 EUR
FDC not Sent --- 30,00 EUR
FDC STAMP 1 not Sent --- 2,50 EUR
FDC STAMP 2 not Sent --- 6,50 EUR
FDC STAMP 3 not Sent --- 4,50 EUR
FDC STAMP 4 not Sent --- 4,50 EUR
FDC STAMP 5 not Sent --- 7,50 EUR
FDC STAMP 6 not Sent --- 10,50 EUR
FDC STAMP 7 not Sent --- 11,50 EUR
FDC STAMP 8 not Sent --- 15,50 EUR

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: October 24th, 2012
Printed: According to the following table:
Block 1: 10.000 copies
Block 2: 6.000 copies
Block 3: 3.000 copies
Distribuition of stamps makes:
Stamp 1: 65.000 copies
Stamp 2: 15.000 copies
Stamp 3: 65.000 copies
Stamp 4: 110.000 copies
Stamp 5: 90.000 copies
Stamp 6: 100.000 copies
Stamp 7: 15.000 copies
Stamp 8: 15.000 copies

Stamp Shape and Size: All Rectangular [20 mm. x 30 mm.]
Perforation: Lines
Gum: Self Adhesive

Block Configuration: All 3 blocks composed of 25 stamps [5 x 5], according to this configuration:
Block 1:
[ [STAMP 6, STAMP 6, STAMP 6, STAMP 6, STAMP 6]
[ [STAMP 6, STAMP 6, STAMP 6, STAMP 6, STAMP 6]
[ [STAMP 4, STAMP 4, STAMP 4, STAMP 4, STAMP 4]
[ [STAMP 3, STAMP 3, STAMP 3, STAMP 3, STAMP 3]
[ [STAMP 1, STAMP 1, STAMP 1, STAMP 1, STAMP 1]
Block 2:
[ [STAMP 5, STAMP 5, STAMP 5, STAMP 5, STAMP 5]
[ [STAMP 5, STAMP 5, STAMP 5, STAMP 5, STAMP 5]
[ [STAMP 5, STAMP 5, STAMP 5, STAMP 5, STAMP 5]
[ [STAMP 4, STAMP 4, STAMP 4, STAMP 4, STAMP 4]
[ [STAMP 4, STAMP 4, STAMP 4, STAMP 4, STAMP 4]
Block 3:
[ [STAMP 8, STAMP 8, STAMP 8, STAMP 8, STAMP 8]
[ [STAMP 7, STAMP 7, STAMP 7, STAMP 7, STAMP 7]
[ [STAMP 3, STAMP 3, STAMP 3, STAMP 3, STAMP 3]
[ [STAMP 2, STAMP 2, STAMP 2, STAMP 2, STAMP 2]
[ [STAMP 1, STAMP 1, STAMP 1, STAMP 1, STAMP 1]
Block Shape and Size: All Rectangular [151 mm. x 221 mm.]
Block Folder Shape and Size: Rectangular [169 mm. x 229 mm.]

FDC Type: Normal
FDC Shape and Size: 2 x Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]

Catalogue information:

Michel: No Data Available
Ivert: No Data Available
Scott: No Data Available
Stanley & Gibbons: No Data Available

Topics:

Issue:

This serie of eight stamps, distributed in a very peculiar way through three different blocks, was issued to support the work of the "Unidad NAcional de SEguridad Vial (UNASEV)", which it name could be translated to National Unit for Road Safety.

The UNASEV was created to generate social awareness of the role that each citizen has to help solving or exacerbating the problem of road accidents. Also to contribute to a change in the "road culture" in the country and to generate social responsibility about this topic. It promotes behaviors in traffic, based on the values of preservation of human life.

The serie was issued on a year that UNASEV has a great success with his contribuition in diminish in 15% the number of uruguayan died or injured in traffic accidents on 2012 compared to last year.

This issue has some particularities in the way it was sold by the post office.

The first is that the stamps are not sold individually, they are only sold in blocks.

The second is that the cost of each block offers a significative discount compared with the sum of all the stamps included in the block.

The last particularity, is the configuration of the blocks, which it was shown in a previous section of this page, and it produces the need of purchase all the blocks to compose a complete serie. With the three blocks you get five complete serie and 5 extra copies of Stamps 1, 3, and 6, and 10 extra copies of Stamps 4, and 5.

Finally, the design of the series included in all the stamps of it, the logo of UNASEV, which has a road with vanishing point in the center of a circle.

Stamp 1:

The first stamp of the serie, shows the Stop traffic signal, and a legend that could be translated to "Stop is Stop", making clear the importance to really stop in the crossings marked with this sign.

Stamp 2:

This second stamp deals with the topic of the problems associated with drinking alcohol and driving.

In it design it is shown the work of the youth Graphic designer Marcelo Lima, born in the city of Mercedes, in the department of Soriano.

His work is composed by three cups of wine, with the last of them smashed, leaving a spot that looks like a bloodstain, and a phrase that means: "Do not finish in that way your path. If you drink do not drive.".

This work won an award organized by the "Instituto Nacional de la JUventud (INJU)", that means: "National Institute of Youth". This institute is a part of the "MInisterio de DEarrollo Social (MIDES)", that means "Ministry of Social Development", a relatively new ministry of Uruguayan Goverment.

Because of this relation with the INJU institution and MIDES ministry, the logos of both state entities, are shown in the stamp.

The logotype of MIDES it is a flower, with five petals of different colours.

Stamp 3:

The third stamp is about the seat belt, and it significant when accidents occurs.

The legend included in the desing means: "Use the seat belt, a hug to life".

The idea is expressed by showing the seat belt as two arms hugging a human siluet from behind, joining it hands over an iconic heart.

Stamp 4:

The forth stamp encourage the use of helmet when driving a motorbike.

The stamp shows a person wearing a helmet, as it was a traffic signal, and the design adds a legend that means: "Use your head".

A similar triangular sign is sticked in the helmet, however it is not clear if is the same signal or another unknown one.

Stamp 5:

The fifth stamp is about not drive at highspeed.

It shows the speed limit traffic signal, and it adds a legend that translated to english says: "If you do not hurry... , you will always arrive.".

Stamp 6:

The sixth stamp shows a blue ribbon, as the ones used for many campaigns, and adds a text that means: "World Day of victims of traffic accidents (law number 18.904).

The law number 18.904, approved on May 4th, 2012, by the uruguayan parliament, states that Uruguay get aligned with the resolution "A/RES/64/255" adopted in the General Assembly of the United Nations, in his 74th ordinary sesion on March 2nd, 2010.

In this uruguayan law, it is established that each third Sunday of November from now on, it will be the National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Traffic Accidents, coinciding with the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, proclaimed in the Resoulion 60/5 of the General Assembly of the United Nations on October 26th, 2005.

Stamp 7:

The seventh stamp shows mainly the logotype of the UNASEV.

However, it also adds the rising "Sun of May", who is the actual log of the Presidence of Uruguay.

The Sun of May is a representation of the Inca sun god Inti.

In form, it is similar to, and may be partially derived from, "the sun in splendour" common in European heraldry. This too is usually depicted with a face, and with alternating straight and wavy rays (representing light and heat respectively), though it normally has only sixteen rays.

In 1978 the sun colour was specified to be golden yellow (amarillo oro), to have an inner diameter of 10 cm, and an outer diameter of 25 cm (the diameter of the sun equals 5⁄6 the height of the white stripe, and the sun's face is 2⁄5 of its height). It features 32 rays, 16 undulated and 16 straight in alternation,[3] and since 1978 it must be embroidered in the official ceremonial flag..

The specification "of May" is a reference to the May Revolution which took place in the week from 18 to 25 May 1810, which marked the beginning of the independence from the Spanish Empire for the countries that were part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata by then. There is a legend that as the new government was proclaimed, the sun broke through the clouds, which was seen as a good omen..

The sun, like the Phrygian cap on Argentina's coat of arms and the triband flag, was already used as an emblem of the French Revolution. It has been speculated that groups of deputies in the French revolution used a seal very similar to the current Argentine coat of arms, including a sun symbol. In France, the sun was used especially in relation to the Cult of the Supreme Being. The sun in the French Revolution was adopted as a symbol from Freemasonic representations of the all-seeing eye, in a triangle in a burst of sunrays..

Stamp 8:

The eight and last stamps only shows the logotype of the "Decade of action for road Safety 2011 - 2020".

The "Decade of action for road Safety 2011 - 2020", was established in the resolution "A/RES/64/255" adopted in the General Assembly of the United Nations, and particulary for Uruguay in his law 18.904. Both, resolution and law, are the same mentioned in the description of stamp 6.

Block Folder:

The block folder it is shaped as an open cover with it front cut in diagonal, enabling that part of the block, specially the part showing which block it is, be seen when it is placed in the folder.

The design includes at front the rising sun logotype of the uruguayan post office, an iconic draw of a stamp telling that the stamps in the block includes a bonfication, a kind of map of Uruguay, made by spot, showing the places in which post offices are located, conforming the "Red Nacional Postal", the "National Postal Web".

At back of the folder, the cost of most common shipment taxes is shown, and a recommendation of the block which is more convenient to buy, according to the user's profile.

At back also, some covers and cubes are shown, and also a QR code linking to more information about the product.

FDC:

The Cancelation of the FDC shows the logotype of the UNASEV, and a legend that commemorates the fifth national week of road safety, that extends from October 22nd to October 26th.

The week of road safety is has been being organizated by UNASEV since 2007, however, since this year, 2012, and with the law 18.904 already mentioned, it was established to be organizated each year from now on.

If you consider that there are another topics in this stamp, that were not spot in this review, you are encouraged to telling me about them, so please do not hesitate to post a comment. I would appreciate your help very much.