Saskatchewan village spreading the love one stamp at a time
As lovebirds prepare to shower their significant others with affection this Valentine’s Day, one Northeast Saskatchewan village spreads love around the world.
Postmaster Connie Black-Sturby said the village of Love, Sask. has become famous for their stamps. Pauline and Dale McKinnon created a teddy bear stamp 24 years ago, which became Canada Post’s first ever mail cancellation stamp to feature a picture. Four years ago, Black-Sturby went to Ottawa to assist in the creation of a heart stamp, and today every piece of mail that leaves the post office is stamped with one of the two images.
People often mail envelopes to the Love post office with self-addressed envelopes inside, Black-Sturby said, simply to receive the special stamps. She stamps the mail and sends it off to locations around Canada, and sometimes much further away.
“This year Ontario and British Columbia are my biggest ones coming in right now,” she told northeastNOW. “China is huge. They love sending stuff here. It’s absolutely amazing.”