July 30rd 2010, The Shanghaidaily.com write about Expo passorts. While visitors are going crazy trying to fill their Expo passports with pavilion stamps, another group is also chasing stamps, postage ones this time.

 

At the San Marino Pavilion, a set of stamps is on sale featuring the country's landmark buildings and which appear in 3D through the glasses provided. The Austria Pavilion is also offering a 3D postage stamp of a football player. Yu Zhongxi, the director of the pavilion's store, said 80 percent of customers who shopped at the store would buy at least one stamp. The Africa Joint Pavilion and the Pacific Pavilion also feature postage stamps from several countries. Stamps issued by China Post are selling well at the DPRK Pavilion.

The most popular item is a book of stamps about the friendship between China and the North Korea. Also popular is a 200 yuan book of stamps featuring the folk customs, traditional costumes and sports of North Koreas.  Postage stamps on sale at the United Nations Pavilion depict a monkey and the United Nations headquarters to celebrate the year of the monkey 30 years ago when China began to issue stamps based on the lunar calendar.

And if you purchase a postcard at the Lithuania Pavilion, some six weeks later, you will receive the postcard mailed from the country. Pavilion staff will be taking the postcards home with them and posting them back to your address.

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