Swiss Post unveils special stamp for Ice Hockey World Championships

Swiss Post has issued a special stamp to honour the Ice Hockey World Championships in Switzerland. This is printed on transparent chalk paper for the first time and is intended to be reminiscent of an ice rink. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The World Championships are returning to "our ice hockey-crazy country", Swiss Post wrote in a press release on Thursday. The Ice Hockey World Championships will be held in Zurich and Fribourg May 15-31. The special stamp is intended to honour this event. It's been 17 years since the last time the event was held in the country. The chalk paper features an ice hockey puck on a white field with the typical red and blue lines, as well as a cut stick. New technology against counterfeiting At the same time as launching this special stamp, Swiss Post said it was launching a pilot project to better recognise counterfeit stamps. In four letter centres, it is testing better identification with a so-called data matrix code ...