E is for El Jem, Tunisia

Facebook Swap, Sender: Kaabi
Sent: 28 Sept 2012 from El Manzah, Tunisia
Received date not stamped on card, Traveled ~ 11185.85 km

The story for how I acquired this card is similar to the previous one, Djemila. I cannot find a member who would want to swap from postcrossing.com. Luckily, someone from the Postcrossing group in Facebook agreed to do a swap for me. Like my Algeria card, this one from Tunisia is also my one and only one from there.

El Jem is a Roman ampitheatre ruin, the largest colosseum in North Africa. It was inscribed to the UNESCO WHS list in 1979.

~maria

The post, etc.

The theme for Sunday Stamps today is the post, letters, post boxes, etc.

I'm happy to find 4 related stamps in my collection:

From Netherlands, I have this postcrossing.com stamp issued in 14 October 2011 by PostNL.

The 'Posta Italiana', issued in 7 July 2009. According to the Poste Italiane website, the design "features an envelope taking off, leaving behind a trail formed by the colors of the Italian flag."

This stamp was issued by the Česká pošta in 9 October 2011 to commemorate 

the annual World Post Day. 

A commemorative issue on 3 August 2012 by the Office National des Postes Tunisie 

for the Arab Post Day. 

~maria