PHLPost Welcomes Year of the Goat with Special Stamps

(PIA) – To welcome the New Year, the Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) has launched its “2015 Year of the Goat” special stamp.

According to PHLPost, the two-design stamp features the colorful image of the goat’s head sold at P10 per piece and the whole image of the goat worth P30 each.

The special stamps also comes with a greeting “Manigong Bagong Taon” while the P30 stamp bears the English translation “Happy New Year.” At the bottom of the stamps are Chinese characters and the words “2015 Year of the Goat.”

Some 55,000 copies of the stamp are now available in post offices and shops nationwide.

According to the Chinese zodiac, 2015 is the year of the green wooden goat. The goat or sheep is the eighth animal to heed Buddha’s call. It is believed that those born in a goat year are creative, intelligent, dependable and calm. (PHLPOST/RJB/JEG/PIA-NCR)