#502 United Nations 11/09/03

This special Austrian cover was delivered by balloon post in Vienna on September 3, 2011. The cover was on board of the Nivea balloon OE-ZN1.

The special delivery took place in the course of the 22th balloon post event, which was organised by the stamp collectors club BSV Pinkafeld. The sales revenu is used to aid the St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute.

The stamp is part of a set, which was issued on July 1, 2011. It commemorates the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

#445 United Nations 11/01/31

This nice cover from the United Nations Geneva was posted on January 31 and arrived on February 3, 2011.

The attached stamps commemorate the UN Volunteers program and the first Secretary-General Trygve Lie (1896-1968).

Thank you, Soichiro, for sending this cover!

#310 United Nations 10/03/22

Dorothy sent me this nice cover from the United Nations, New York, thank you! The cover was posted on March 22 and arrived on March 29, 2010.

The left stamp is an older definitive issued on November 19, 1976. The right stamp was issued on October 2, 2009, and commemorates the International Day of Non-Violence.

United Nations 08/11/17

Registered cover from the United Nations in Vienna, posted on November 17, 2008.

The left stamp (face value 0.75 €) is of the 2003 series “World Heritage
Sites” and depicts the Everglades in Florida; the right stamp (2.03 € face value) depicts the Kapitelschwemme in Salzburg (the horses’ watering place).