BOXING-PACQUIAO/STAMPS Manny Pacquiao stamps go on sale in the Philippines

Record ID: 158730

  • Title: BOXING-PACQUIAO/STAMPS Manny Pacquiao stamps go on sale in the Philippines
  • Date: 22nd April 2015
  • Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (APRIL 22, 2015) (REUTERS) CUSTOMERS IN FRONT OF POST OFFICE SHOP CUSTOMER LOOKING AT STAMPS STAMPS BEHIND GLASS COUNTER VARIOUS OF SPECIAL STAMPS WITH IMAGE OF FILIPINO BOXER MANNY PACQUIAO VARIOUS OF PACQUIAO SOUVENIR STAMPS CUSTOMERS BUYING STAMPS FROM STORE EMPLOYEE CUSTOMERS BUYING STAMPS (SOUNDBITE)(Filipino) STAMP COLLECTOR ARNEL NITRO SAYING: "I
  • Embargoed: 7th May 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Philippines
  • Country: Philippines
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAAKED8SVPP2YDHZ7C0TXJQ36FN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Limited copies of Manny Pacquiao stamps have gone on sale in the Philippines ahead of a historic fight against Floyd Mayweather.
    Only 500,000 copies of the special edition regular stamps and 30,000 souvenir stamps were printed by the Philippine Postal Corporation.
    Each regular stamp costs 10 pesos ($0.22 ), while the souvenir stamp cost 40 pesos ($0.90).
    The Philippine Postal Corporation said most of the stamps were sold on the first two days since its initial release on Monday (April 20). They plan on making the stamps available to order online for international collectors as well.
    "It is very rare to find a stamp with a boxer in it. I was supposed to buy it tomorrow, but I thought it might get sold out," said Arnel Nitro, a stamp collector.
    Luis Carlos, Assistant Postmaster for Marketing, said they wanted to immortalize Pacquiao and his historic fight.
    "The stamp is basically bringing you history. It depicts the country, the history, the person, all of it, so this is something that maybe, not in our time, in the next 50 years, people would look at the stamps and look at it as a historical background on who was Pacquiao when he was in 2015 fighting this fight of the century," he said.
    The fight on May 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas between Mayweather and Filipino southpaw Pacquiao is expected to be the highest grossing bout in history.
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