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PM releases stamp, first day cover on Int’l Customs Day
DHAKA, Jan 22, 2018 (BSS) – Bangladesh Post Office has released a
commemorative postage stamp, a first day cover and data card on the occasion
of the International Customs Day 2018.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally released the Taka 10 postage
stamp, Taka 10 first day cover and Taka 5 data card at the cabinet meeting
held at the Prime Minister’s Office here this morning.
A special canceller was used on the occasion.
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Post and Telecommunications
Minister Mostafa Jabbar, Senior Secretary of Internal Resources Division
(IRD) and Chairman of National Board of Revenue (NBR) Md. Mosharraf Hossain
Bhuiyan, Post and Telecommunications Secretary Shyam Sundar Shikdar and
Director General of Bangladesh Post Office Sushanta Kumar Mandal were present
on the occasion, among others.
The stamp, first day cover and data card are being sold at the
Philatelic Bureau of Dhaka GPO from today, and those would be available at
other GPOs and head post offices across the country later.
BSS/SH/IJ/1520 hrs